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While experimenting with this question on collections in Spring.NET, I discovered that Spring can inject a dependency using a private setter. I have two questions:
The documentation says:
Setter-based DI is realized by calling setter methods on your objects…
Granted, it doesn’t explicitly say public setter methods, but that’s what I had always assumed. I’m using version 1.0.2 on .NET 3.5.
Don,
no this is not documented asfaik – mostly because we don’t recommend it. The feature is there to support rare cornercases when dealing with legacy/3rd party libraries.
You should only use public setters that you may also call from within your unit tests!
hth, Erich