Can I inject an object into another object and pass in the

init()

arguments? I've tried this without success...

property name="test" inject="<http://path.to|path.to>.component( a='a', b='b')";

I don't believe you can use that syntax. You'd have to use

getInstance( name = 'component', initArguments = { a = 'foo', b = 'bar' } );

I'd take a step back and ask: • is the object you are trying to inject into a singleton? • is the object you are trying to inject a transient?

This is other people's code which I'm trying to update. Neither are annotated as

singleton

so I guess they're transient. I'd forgotten about

getInstance()

and didn't know it took an

initArguments

argument. Let me try that. It looks neater that this which I get to work in the

init()

of the receiving object

variables.test = createObject( "component", "path.to.component" ).init( a='a', b='b' );

You do need to be careful doing that in the constructor because you can run into the chicken and egg problem where Wirebox may not have built

component

yet.

onDIComplete()

is usually a safe place to put something like that - but if it's not a transient and not a singleton, having a single one stashed in your

variables

scope seems ... not very transient

yeah, if the injected component is a singleton, you should have it configured and ready to inject with those preset parameters. If you inject it in different places with different init arguments then it's a transient. For transient usage then

getInstance

in

onDIComplete

is the easiest way to do it.

Thank you both - I now have a neater solution with

property _name_="wirebox" _inject_="wirebox";

in the pseudo constructor and

function onDIComplete() {
	variables.test = wirebox.getInstance( "path.to.component", { a: 'a', b: 'b' } );
}