Qt dependency injection

[Maximilian Kossick]

Hi guys,

after reading Jos' blog on singletons
(http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4059, although I disagree with his
conclusion), and knowing that this is basically a solved problem in
the Java world thanks to dependency injection containers like Spring,
I've started to wonder why Qt does not provide a DI container itself,
which should be possible using QObjects.

A bit of googling showed: there actually is one:
http://qtioccontainer.sourceforge.net

The only problem is that the last update was three years ago...

This is just a heads up that I'm going to play with it on one of the
next weekends. A major advantage that this could give us is that we
could get replace all those ::instance() methods with code that looks
up the object in the application context, and actually returns a mock
object for tests by defining a special application context for the
tests. Using that approach, we could start to write tests for major
components that are unfortunately untestable at the moment in my
opinion.

Cheers,
Max