Manually creating koin

[wcarmon]

It's not so obvious from the documentation how you would make a koin instance
(without all the static/global mechanisms like startKoin, StandAloneKoinContext and such).

Use cases include things like:

• keeping multiple isolated object graphs (eg. for a plugin based architecture)
• testing in parallel
• etc

Can you add something like this (either to source or to documentation):

    /**
     * Build a koin instance.
     *
     * @param application - the android.app.Application instance (for binding koin.properties)
     * @param modules - modules containing bean definitions
     * @param properties - configuration injected into your beans
     *
     * Then finished with the instance:
     *      theKoinInstance.koinContext.close()
     */
    fun buildKoin(
            application: Application,
            modules: Collection<Module>,
            properties: Map<String, Any>): Koin {

        val koin = Koin(KoinContext(BeanRegistry(), PropertyRegistry(), InstanceFactory()))
                .build(modules.toList())   <--- assuming this doesn't reference global/Standalone
                .bindAdditionalProperties(properties)

        koin with application
        return koin  
    }

If it's documentation, perhaps it should live here: https://insert-koin.io/docs/1.0/reference/starting-koin/#loading-koin-modules-without-starting-koin

[arnaudgiuliani]

I'll try to add it doc. Can be a deep subject :)

[arnaudgiuliani]

I planed to review all doc project by project. When this will be available. Do you need a concrete answer on one point before this doc update?

[arnaudgiuliani]

Hello,

check the #143 about modules section, for graph isolation.

Parallel testing with gradle is not a problem. Testing in parallel with the same jvm can be problematic because Koin keeps its container with a static holder (behind the start section).