Kotlin

This tutorial lets you write a Kotlin application and use Koin inject and retrieve your components.

Get the code

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The source code is available at on Github

Setup

First, check that the koin-core dependency is added like below:

// Add Maven Central to your repositories if needed
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
// Koin for Kotlin apps
compile "org.koin:koin-core:$koin_version"
// Testing
testCompile "org.koin:koin-test:$koin_version"
}

The application

In our small app we need to have 2 components:

  • HelloMessageData - hold data
  • HelloService - use and display data from HelloMessageData
  • HelloApplication - retrieve and use HelloService

Data holder

Let's create a HelloMessageData data class to hold our data:

/**
* A class to hold our message data
*/
data class HelloMessageData(val message : String = "Hello Koin!")

Service

Let's create a service to display our data from HelloMessageData. Let's write HelloServiceImpl class and its interface HelloService:

/**
* Hello Service - interface
*/
interface HelloService {
fun hello(): String
}
/**
* Hello Service Impl
* Will use HelloMessageData data
*/
class HelloServiceImpl(private val helloMessageData: HelloMessageData) : HelloService {
override fun hello() = "Hey, ${helloMessageData.message}"
}

The application class

To run our HelloService component, we need to create a runtime component. Let's write a HelloApplication class and tag it with KoinComponent interface. This will later allows us to use the by inject() functions to retrieve our component:

/**
* HelloApplication - Application Class
* use HelloService
*/
class HelloApplication : KoinComponent {
// Inject HelloService
val helloService by inject<HelloService>()
// display our data
fun sayHello() = println(helloService.hello())
}

Declaring dependencies

Now, let's assemble HelloMessageData with HelloService, with a Koin module:

val helloModule = module {
single { HelloMessageData() }
single { HelloServiceImpl(get()) as HelloService }
}

We declare each component as single, as singleton instances.

  • single { HelloMessageData() } : declare a singleton of HelloMessageData instance
  • single { HelloServiceImpl(get()) as HelloService } : Build HelloServiceImpl with injected instance of HelloMessageData, declared a singleton of HelloService.

That's it!

Just start our app from a main function:

fun main(vararg args: String) {
startKoin {
// use Koin logger
printLogger()
// declare modules
modules(helloModule)
}
HelloApplication().sayHello()
}
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