[LOG4J2-1188] Allow plugins to be created through more flexible dependency injection patterns

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: Plugins
• Epic Link: Mean Bean Machine
• Assignee: Matt Sicker
• Reporter: Matt Sicker
• Created: 02/Nov/15 00:02
• Updated: 20/Mar/22 21:25
• Resolved: 20/Mar/22 21:25

Description

Plugin builders were introduced long ago as a way to configure plugin instances while also maintaining a backward-compatible way to evolve the API of a plugin. While this has been useful, there are other ways that would be nice to make a plugin dependency injectable.

This should allow for an @Inject constructor to be used along with supporting zero or more arguments in each @Inject method.