Dagger 2: No implementation generated for componen

Question

I have created a demo Android Lib project and used dagger 2.0 with the following steps:

1. Added the following jars to /libs folder:

   dagger-2.0.jar

   dagger-compiler-2.0.jar

   dagger-producers-2.0-beta.jar

   guava-18.0.jar

   javawriter-2.5.1.jar

   javax.annotation-api-1.2.jar

   javax.inject-1.jar

2. Project -> Properties -> Java Compiler -> Annotation Processing (Enabled annotation processing)

3. Project -> Properties -> Java Compiler -> Annotation Processing - Factory path: Added all the above mentioned jars.

4. Created the following classes:

   public class Car {
   
       private Engine engine;
   
       @Inject
       public Car(Engine engine) {
           this.engine = engine;
       }
   
       public String carDetails(){
           String engineName = this.engine.getName();
           int engineNumber = this.engine.getNumber();
   
           return "This car has the following details: \n" + engineName + "----" + engineNumber;
       }
   }
   

   public interface Engine {

           public String getName();
   
           public int getNumber();
   
       }
   
   public class Toyota implements Engine{
   
       @Override
       public String getName() {
           return "This is toyota engine";
       }
   
       @Override
       public int getNumber() {
           return 1234567890;
       }
   
   
   
   }
   
   
   @Component(modules = EngineModule.class)
   public interface EngineComponent {
       void inject();
   }
   
   @Module
   public class EngineModule {
   
       public EngineModule(DemoApplication demoApplication) {
   
       }
   
       @Provides
       Engine provideEngine(){
           return new Toyota();
       }
   }
   

But inside /.apt-generated folder there are only two files:

Car_Factory.java            EngineModule_ProvideEngineFactory.java

DaggerEngineComponent.java is not there for me to build the component.

Could someone please help?

Answer 1

I'm guessing the annotation processor is encountering an error and Eclipse is not showing you the log. If you have log output in the Output view, you may want to paste that into the question.

Specifically, I think it's erroring out on void inject(), which isn't a format descibed in the @Component docs. Those docs describe three types of methods:

• Parameterless factory methods that return an injectable type Dagger creates and injects, like Engine createEngine(), or
• Single-parameter void methods that receive an instance created elsewhere and apply method and field injection, like void injectEngine(Engine) or Engine injectEngine(Engine).
• Subcomponent-returning methods that combine your Component's bindings with those from another module.

Because your void inject() doesn't match any of those formats, Dagger is likely erroring out and refusing to create a DaggerEngineComponent.