Why does field injection work with lateinit var but not with var?

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Hi all!

In Chapter 7.2, field injection is performed in SequencePresenterImpl with:

@Inject
lateinit var sequenceModel: SequenceGenerator<Int>

Later, in Chapter 9.3 a similar thing is done with SequenceViewBinderImpl:

@Inject
var sequenceViewListener: SequenceViewBinder.Listener? = null

However, the latter throws the error: Dagger does not support injection into private fields.

So, why does the former work? Is it too silly a question?

Cheers :slight_smile:

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Found the answer here:

When you use lateinit the generated field has the same visibility as its getter and setter, in this case public . This makes it work with Dagger.