Iterate on registered bindings in a container

[y-nk]

I'd like to be able to list/debug registered bindings in containers. Is there a public api to do that?

[notaphplover]

Hey @y-nk, the closest API to do what you want is the plugin API. The PluginContext received in the plugin constructor would allow you to access a BindingService in order to iterate over existing bindings and provide a custom method to list them.

As the docs says, plugins are experimental and access internal data which is likely to change

[y-nk]

thanks @notaphplover ! is there any sense into having this as a module api? there used to be getBindings and while reading source it appeared to me there's possible access to the registry, but is this usecases legitimate enough?

[notaphplover]

I would prefer to avoid providing this as an stable API. At the end, bindings are internal data structures that might change the same way other internal data structures change.

I really don't know if the use case is legitimate. I have only half of the picture. In my mind, bindings are more often than not well known in the userland, at the end the container is configured by devs with their expected bindings, so it feels natural to think they know the binding list. On the other hand, some dynamic configurations might lead to not knowing the list of bindings in a container, so the use case might very well be legitimate. My main concern is not exposing internal data it might change and not overcomplicate the library API.

[y-nk]

i understand the concern. i'll find my way around this then :) i should probably look at what i want to achieve from a different angle.