Feature Request: Allow instances to be reused, but also garbage collected

[ankushg]

It's great that we have some flexibility between factory and singleton!

At the same time, we have many classes that could be reused if they already exist, without a strong need to only have one single instance.

• With singleton, we find ourselves wasting memory by retaining such classes far beyond when we need them
• With factory, we find ourselves wasting memory by creating too many simultaneous instances of classes that could have be shared

It would be great if we could tell Koin to

• reuse an existing instance if it already has one, but also
• give Koin the freedom to let that instance be garbage collected whenever it's no longer needed and recreated in the future

This is similar to Dagger's @Reusable scope.

[arnaudgiuliani]

Yep, something like with weak references to garbage it if nobody has nay reference on it 🤔

[lcszc]

Any plans on when this will get added? It's been 1y+

Swinject already has this feature as well and I believe it is a must-have, otherwise we would need to be hacking around scopes.

[arnaudgiuliani]

yes, it's something that need a bit of rework for internal engine