Injecting an object returned by a TyphoonTypeConverter

[rwbutler]

I have a plist as follows defining a mapping to a custom object:

<dict>
<key>myObject</key>
<string>MyObject()</string>
<key>myObject.myURL</key>
<string>NSURL(http://myurl.com )</string>
</dict>

It seems that on implementing the TyphoonTypeConverter protocol, only a concrete object can be returned from the convert method rather than another TyphoonDefinition. Is there any way to inject the custom object returned from the TyphoonTypeConverter with another property defined in the plist?

e.g. the MyObject returned by the TyphoonTypeConverter implementation would have a property myURL set to the value defined in the plist?

[jasperblues]

Yes only a custom object. When you create definitions in a TyphoonAssembly subclass to thing happen:

• It is instrumented so that each definition is allocated a key. (To support code completion and refactoring without any special tool support).
• Upon activation the definition is registered with a TyphoonComponentFactory.

So if you wanted a type converter to return a TyphoonDefinition those steps would need to happen too.

[rwbutler]

Thanks for the info. If I drop the plist mapping and configure in the assembly e.g.

-(ViewController *)viewController {

return [TyphoonDefinition withClass:[DataManager class] configuration:^(TyphoonDefinition *definition)     {
    [definition injectProperty:@selector(dataManager) with:[self dataManager]];
}];
}

Is there a way to inject properties into the dataManager which is already being injected into the view controller?

[jasperblues]

Yes of course. The definition for the data manager can have initializer, property or method injections. And the injections can be any of these - references to other definitions, scalar values (int, BOOL, etc), inline objects or something resolved from TyphoonConfig.

[jasperblues]

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