Dagger - Is it possible to select a Provider based on inheritance? - dependency-injection

Question

At the moment I have a Base class that contains a member I would like to inject. However, I would like the concrete type of this member to depend on the Subclass being instantiated. What I am aiming for is something along these lines:
public interface StringInterface {
public String getString();
}
public class HelloStringConcrete implements StringInterface {
public String getString() {
return "Hello";
}
}
public class WorldStringConcrete implements StringInterface {
public String getString() {
return "World";
}
}
public abstract class Base {
#Inject StringInterface member;
public Base() {
// Assume access to object graph
MyObjectGraph.get().inject(this);
}
public void printSomething() {
System.out.println(member.getString());
}
}
public class SubclassHello extends Base {}
public class SubclassWorld extends Base {}
#Module(injects = {SubclassHello.class})
public class HelloModule {
#Provides StringInterface provideStringInterface() {
return new HelloStringConcrete();
}
}
#Module(injects = {SubclassWorld.class})
public class WorldModule {
#Provides StringInterface provideStringInterface() {
return new WorldStringConcrete();
}
}
So now what I would like to do is something along the lines of:
#Module(
includes = {
HelloModule.class,
WorldModule.class
}
)
public class BigModule {}
// Somewhere in another piece of code...
objectGraph = ObjectGraph.create(new BigModule());
// In yet another piece of code...
SubclassHello hello = new SubclassHello();
SubclassWorld world = new SubclassWorld();
hello.printSomething();
world.printSomething();
// Hopefully would result in :
// Hello
// World
This type of setup won't work though, because including two modules with the same provider will result in a duplicate provider error at compile time. It would be cool to see a solution to this problem without introducing #Named or #Qualifer annotations, or using scoped graph extensions via graph.plus() because these strategies necessarily introduce coupling to the subclasses

Answer 1

This is possible but I think the code I've attached below is more coupled than using scoped graphs or annotations. Basically you can use constructor injection to inject concrete dependencies to your
SubclassHello and SubclassWorld.
public abstract class Base {
private final StringInterface member;
public Base(StringInterface member) {
this.member = member;
}
...
}
#Module(injects = {SubclassWorld.class})
public class WorldModule {
#Provides
WorldStringConcrete provideStringInterface() {
return new WorldStringConcrete();
}
}
public class SubclassWorld extends Base {
#Inject
public SubclassWorld(WorldStringConcrete worldStringConcrete) {
super(worldStringConcrete);
}
}
#Module(injects = {SubclassHello.class})
public class HelloModule {
#Provides
HelloStringConcrete provideStringInterface() {
return new HelloStringConcrete();
}
}
public class SubclassHello extends Base {
#Inject
public SubclassHello(HelloStringConcrete helloStringConcrete) {
super(helloStringConcrete);
}
}
// Somewhere in another piece of code...
ObjectGraph objectGraph = ObjectGraph.create(new BigModule());
// In yet another piece of code...
SubclassHello hello = objectGraph.get(SubclassHello.class);
SubclassWorld world = objectGraph.get(SubclassWorld.class);
I don't think there are other solutions. How could Dagger find out which StringInterface implementations should be injected to the concrete classes?