playframework / playframework/play1

support non-static dependencies in jobs, plugins, controllers etc.

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Since Oct 16, 2017.

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Description

Play framework support dependency injection: you can mark fields of some classes with @javax.inject.Inject annotation. But there is a huge disadvantage: these fields can only be static. It leads to a very bad code design.

I suggest to make it possible to inject non-static fields.

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