Dynamically bind instances using guice

Question

In my application (stand alone apache camel) i have to bind several beans (instances of pojos). Because those pojos could not be used directly (in java) but have to be used via bound references in urls i want to "register" all available beans in an enum. The beans are then bound like this:

public class BeanRegistry extends JndiRegistry {
    public BeanRegistry() {
        for (Beans bean : Beans.values()) {
            try {
                this.bind(bean.name(), bean.clazz().newInstance());
            } catch (InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException e) {
                throw new IllegalStateException("Problem on instantiating bean " + bean.name() + " with type "
                                                + bean.clazz().getName() + ", cause Exception: ", e);
            }
        }

    }


    public static enum Beans {
        sorter(SortingStrategy.class),
        policy(PolicyForStartAndStopRoutes.class),
        doneFilter(ExcludeDoneFilesFilter.class);

        private final Class<?> clazz;

        Beans(Class<?> clazz) {
            this.clazz = clazz;
        }

        public Class<?> clazz() {
            return clazz;
        }
    }
}

With this no spelling mistakes could happen as long as you use enum's name to reference a bean. My problem is bean.clazz().newInstance(). Is there a way to use guice to "provide" the instances? With guice i could bind the instances to arbitrary constructors or "implementations".

Answer 1

I found a solution using MapBinder. It is packed in a separate dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.inject.extensions</groupId>
    <artifactId>guice-multibindings</artifactId>
    <version>3.0</version>
</dependency>

And here is my new code (it shows my guice module) it is related to my other question:

@Override
protected final void configure() {
    ....
    // bind beans to instances
    MapBinder<String, Object> boundBeans = MapBinder.newMapBinder(binder(), String.class, Object.class);
    for (Beans bean : Beans.values()) {
        boundBeans.addBinding(bean.name()).to(bean.clazz());
    }
}

/**
 *
 * @param boundBeans all beans bound via a {@link MapBinder}
 * @return a jndi registry with all beans (from {@link Beans}) bound 
 */
@Provides
@Inject
final Registry getRegistry(final Map<String, Object> boundBeans) {
    JndiRegistry registry = new JndiRegistry();
    for (Entry<String, Object> boundBean : boundBeans.entrySet()) {
        registry.bind(boundBean.getKey(), boundBean.getValue());
    }
    return registry;
}