Sunday 1 July 2012

Creating JavaFX Controllers Using Guice

I really like Guice Dependency Injection so was pleased to hear that some work has been done to make this interact with JavaFX. The solution presented though, was less than ideal. It had some duplication of configuration where the class name of the controller needed to specified in the FXML as you would expect but also when loading it. After a brief fumble through FXMLLoader's methods I found #setControllerFactory. By passing this wafer thin adapter below as a parameter to #setControllerFactory, any controllers will be instantiated via Guice.