How does @Inject in Scala work

scala playframework dependency-injection playframework-2.0

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Looks close. Change val to var because it is not final and needs to be injected at a latter stage.

@Inject var mailer: MailerClient = null

I'd check also that the MailerClient library is mentioned as a dependency in the project configuration. You could try with WSClient instead as it's included by default in the template:

@Inject var ws: WSClient = null

Especially as I know that this particular one works.

Update

Created a demo on GitHub which is the Play-Scala template with the index method changed as follows:

import play.api._
import play.api.libs.ws.WSClient
import play.api.mvc._
import play.api.libs.concurrent.Execution.Implicits.defaultContext

class Application extends Controller {

  @Inject var ws: WSClient = null

  def index = Action.async {
    ws.url("http://google.com").get.map(r => Ok(r.body))
  }

}

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Updated on June 04, 2022

Comments

Haito almost 2 years
I'm wondering how does @Inject annotation in Play-Scala works. It obviously injects a dependency, but I'm curious how is it working. When I was using it on class extending controller and set routes generator to injectroutesgenerator it seems to autmagically create objects from those classes, but how do I use it in other context?

I tried:
```
@Inject val mailer: MailerClient = null
```
But that doesn't seem to work. Are there any posibilities to @Inject things (that mailerClient, WS ets.) directly to a value, not to controller class?
Haito almost 9 years

It seems legit but still nullPointerException
Haito almost 9 years

When inject MailerClient into class it work as dream, but when i do it like that: "@Inject var mailer: MailerClient = null" github.com/Hajtosek/mailTest/blob/master/app/service/Mail.sc‌ala
Haito almost 9 years

So you're telling me that i can ONLY use @Inject on Controllers?
bjfletcher almost 9 years

You can use it in classes or traits, not objects but you can use the @Singleton annotation for a similar behaviour - docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/api/javax/inject/Singleton.html
Haito almost 9 years

Thank you very much! You helped me a lot.
Haito almost 9 years

So, this should theoretically work? github.com/Hajtosek/mailTest/blob/master/app/service/Mail.sc‌ala
bjfletcher almost 9 years

That's fine, you'll need to tell the system about the injectable module (@Singleton by itself isn't enough). Have a look at this for a Play 2.4 specific example: stackoverflow.com/a/30959808/722180 Have a look also at this for more Scala ways of doing it: stackoverflow.com/a/24823300/722180