Dependency Injection in Swift

Presentation at Tokyo iOS Meetup on February 13, 2016.

http://www.meetup.com/TokyoiOSMeetup/events/226293873/

Transcript

1. Dependency Injection in Swift TOKYO iOS MEETUP, February 13, 2016 @yoichitgy - Yoichi Tagaya
2. Dependency Injection in Scala http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/06/play-24-dependency-injection Typesafe's Play team has released version 2.4 "Damiya" of their web framework... By embracing dependency injection, the refactoring towards better modularization that was started in 2.3 has continued in this release... Play has already supported dependency injection in earlier versions, but now it comes out of the box and its use is even encouraged. "Play 2.4 Moves to Dependency Injection and Java 8"
3. DEMO - Simple Weather App OpenWeatherMap API - http://openweathermap.org https://github.com/Swinject/SwinjectSimpleExample
4. What's Dependency? $MBTT
   # $MBTT
   " Reference Dependency "MBNPpSF
   /FUXPSL 8FBUIFS
   'FUDIFS Reference External System Dependency In the demo app:
5. Hard to test...
6. Problem of Dependency: Simple Example Coupled Components class Cat { let name: String init(name: String) { self.name = name } func sound() -> String { return "Meow!" } } class PetOwner { let pet = Cat(name: "Mimi") func play() -> String { return "I'm playing with \(pet.name). \(pet.sound())" } } let petOwner = PetOwner() print(petOwner.play()) // prints "I'm playing with Mimi. Meow!" Hardcoded Assume we are developing a pet game...
7. PetOwner cannot have a dog...
8. Decoupled Components protocol AnimalType { var name: String { get } func sound() -> String } class Cat: AnimalType { let name: String init(name: String) { self.name = name } func sound() -> String { return "Meow!" } } class PetOwner { let pet: AnimalType init(pet: AnimalType) { self.pet = pet } func play() -> String { return "I'm playing with \(pet.name). \(pet.sound())" } } let catOwner = PetOwner(pet: Cat(name: "Mimi")) print(catOwner.play()) // prints "I'm playing with Mimi. Meow!" AnimalType is Passed (Injected) Dependency to protocol not to implementation (or loosely coupled components)
9. Decoupled Components class Dog: AnimalType { let name: String init(name: String) { self.name = name } func sound() -> String { return "Bow wow!" } } let dogOwner = PetOwner(pet: Dog(name: "Hachi")) print(dogOwner.play()) // prints "I'm playing with Hachi. Bow wow!" (or loosely coupled components) PetOwner can have a dog!
10. Dependency Injection is... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_injection In software engineering, dependency injection is a software design pattern that implements inversion of control for resolving dependencies. A dependency is an object that can be used (a service). An injection is the passing of a dependency to a dependent object (a client) that would use it. Wikipedia: Dependency injection
11. A Bit about Inversion of Control • I'm talking to you.
 / You're talking to me. • You call libraries.
 / Frameworks call you. • You create what you use.
 / What you use are created (and passed).
12. Three Major Injection Patterns 1. Initializer Injection (Constructor Injection) 2. Property Injection 3. Method Injection
13. 1. Initializer Injection (Constructor Injection) class PetOwner { let pet: AnimalType init(pet: AnimalType) { self.pet = pet } } let catOwner = PetOwner(pet: Cat(name: "Mimi")) Preferred (No 2-step initialization)
14. 2. Property Injection class PetOwner { var pet: AnimalType? init() { } } let catOwner = PetOwner() catOwner.pet = Cat(name: "Mimi") UIViewController with UIStoryboard init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder)
15. 3. Method Injection class PetOwner { private(set) var pet: AnimalType? init() { } func setPet(pet: AnimalType) { self.pet = pet } } let catOwner = PetOwner() catOwner.setPet(Cat(name: "Mimi")) class PetOwner { func play(pet: AnimalType) -> String { return "I'm playing with \(pet.name). \(pet.sound())" } } let petOwner = PetOwner() petOwner.play(Cat(name: "Mimi")) or
16. 3. Method Injection (another pattern) struct DateManager { private let formatter: NSDateFormatter = { let formatter = NSDateFormatter() formatter.dateStyle = .MediumStyle return formatter }() func today(date: NSDate = NSDate()) -> String { return formatter.stringFromDate(date) } } let dateManager = DateManager() // Production print(dateManager.today()) // prints "Feb 13, 2016" // Test XCTAssertEqual( "Jan 1, 1970", dateManager.today(NSDate(timeIntervalSince1970: 0.0))) Date can be injected for test
17. DEMO - Fixed Unit Tests with Dependency Injection
18. DI (Dependency Injection) Container Examples: • Spring (Java/Scala) • Dagger (Java/Scala) • Guice (Java/Scala) • Ninject (C#) Popular in Java or static languages. Less popular in Ruby or dynamic languages. What's DI Container?
19. Problem: Beginning of Development /FUXPSL $MBTT
    " Reference
20. Problem: Soon You'll See Dependency Graph /FUXPSL $MBTT
    " Reference %BUBCBTF 5JNF 4USVDU
    # $MBTT
    $ Easy way to manage the dependency graph???
21. DI Container /FUXPSL $MBTT
    " %BUBCBTF 5JNF 4USVDU
    # $MBTT
    $ Dependency graph %*
    $POUBJOFS Register at the beginning Resolve when you need *OTUBODF
    PG
    $MBTT
    "
22. DI Container for Swift import Swinject let container = Container() container.register(AnimalType.self) { _ in Cat(name: "Mimi") } container.register(PetOwner.self) { r in PetOwner(pet: r.resolve(AnimalType.self)!) } https://github.com/Swinject/Swinject Swinject let petOwner = container.resolve(PetOwner.self)! print(petOwner.play()) // prints "I'm playing with Mimi. Meow!" Registration: Resolution: Cat is instantiated automatically when PetOwner is instantiated!
23. DEMO Using Swinject as DI Container
24. Summary • Dependency Injection is a pattern to decouple (loosely-couple) components. • DI Container stores dependency graph and provides instances upon requests. • Software architecture with Dependency Injection is easier to test, maintain and organize.
25. Further Readings • https://www.natashatherobot.com/unit-testing-swift- dependency-injection/ • http://www.warski.org/blog/2011/04/di-in-scala-cake- pattern-pros-cons/ • https://yoichitgy.github.io/post/dependency-injection- in-mvvm-architecture-with-reactivecocoa-part-1- introduction/