I managed to get this to work by tracking down all dependencies and finding that one was being used in the services' constructor. Once I moved the initialisation code into a lazy init method I stopped getting the exceptions.
Unfortunately, I still have an issue because when using addInstance() Tapestry is not using a proxy for the overriding service implementation, instead I'm getting a concrete reference instead which I thought never happened with Tapestry IoC. This causes problems when used in objects that are serialized to the session because it tries to serialize the service implementation rather than just the service proxy. My override looks like this: @Contribute(ServiceOverride.class) public static void setupApplicationServiceOverrides(MappedConfiguration<Class<?>, Object> configuration) { configuration.addInstance(ProductConfig.class, DynamicMultiProductConfig.class); } Basically the contributionType in ValidatingMappedConfigurationWrapper (AbstractConfigurationImpl) is Object which isn't an interface so a proxy isn't created. How can I change the signature of my module service override method so that contributionType is an interface and I get a service proxy like every other service? Can anyone help me? -----Original Message----- From: Blower, Andy [mailto:andy.blo...@proquest.co.uk] Sent: 15 February 2012 14:51 To: users@tapestry.apache.org Subject: [T5.3] Contributing a Service Override using addInstance() I've read the section below about contributing a service override. This method is exactly what I need to resolve an issue I'm having getting a conditional override implemented, but it doesn't appear to work if the service implementations' constructor has any other T5 service dependencies in the signature. (T5 complains that ServiceOverride depends on itself. Is this true, because that doesn't seem to be what's implied below by "handle dependency resolution", and makes addInstance of limited usefulness. I'm hoping I'm just missing something here. >From http://tapestry.apache.org/ioc-cookbook-overriding-ioc-services.html : "In this case, it is very easy to supply your own alternate implementation of a service. AppModule.java (partial) @Contribute(ServiceOverride.class) public static void setupApplicationServiceOverrides(MappedConfiguration<Class,Object> configuration) { configuration.addInstance(SomeServiceType.class, SomeServiceTypeOverrideImpl.class); } The name of the method is not important, as long as the @Contribute<http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/ioc/annotations/Contribute.html> annotation is present on the method. In this example, we are using addInstance() which will instantiate the indicated class and handle dependency resolution. (Be careful with this, because in some cases, resolving dependencies of the override class can require checking against the ServiceOverrides service, and you'll get a runtime exception about ServiceOverrides requiring itself!)" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org