Chapter 5. Using Quarkus dependency injection

Dependency injection enables a service to be used in a way that is completely independent of any client consumption. It separates the creation of client dependencies from the client’s behavior, which enables program designs to be loosely coupled.

Dependency injection in Red Hat build of Quarkus is based on Quarkus ArC which is a CDI-based build-time oriented dependency injection solution tailored for Quarkus architecture. Because ArC is a transitive dependency of quarkus-resteasy, and quarkus-resteasy is a dependency of your project, ArC will already be downloaded.

Prerequisites

  • You have created the Quarkus Getting Started project.

Procedure

  1. To modify the application and add a companion bean, create the src/main/java/org/acme/quickstart/GreetingService.java file with the following content:

    package org.acme.quickstart;
    
    import javax.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;
    
    @ApplicationScoped
    public class GreetingService {
    
        public String greeting(String name) {
            return "hello " + name;
        }
    
    }
  2. Edit the src/main/java/org/acme/quickstart/GreetingResource.java to inject the GreetingService and create a new endpoint using it:

    package org.acme.quickstart;
    
    import javax.inject.Inject;
    import javax.ws.rs.GET;
    import javax.ws.rs.Path;
    import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
    import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
    
    import org.jboss.resteasy.annotations.jaxrs.PathParam;
    
    @Path("/hello")
    public class GreetingResource {
    
        @Inject
        GreetingService service;
    
        @GET
        @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
        @Path("/greeting/{name}")
        public String greeting(@PathParam String name) {
            return service.greeting(name);
        }
    
        @GET
        @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
        public String hello() {
            return "hello";
        }
    }
  3. If you stopped the application, enter the following command to restart it:

    ./mvnw compile quarkus:dev
  4. To verify that the endpoint returns hello quarkus, enter the following command in a new terminal window:

    curl -w "\n" http://localhost:8080/hello/greeting/quarkus
    hello quarkus