A way to ask container to not instantiate a class and rather return it as is

[renatoargh]

Hi Slava, thank you for the great work.

Is there a way to ask to the container to not instantiate the class but to return it as is? For example;

class StrategyA { }
container.add('myStrategy', StrategyA)

// later...

const Strategy = container.get('myStrategy')
const strategy = new Strategy()
strategy.doThings()

Due to previous very bad design I will need the class itself instead of an instance of the class. Is that possible? Currently I have this ugly workaround;

class StrategyA { }
container.add('myStrategy', { class: StrategyA })

// later...

const Strategy = container.get('myStrategy').class
const strategy = new Strategy()
strategy.doThings()

[slavahatnuke]

@renatoargh

Seems you need a factory for your service.

class StrategyA { }
container.add('MyStrategy', function() {return StrategyA})
const MyStrategy = container.get('MyStrategy')
const myStrategy = new MyStrategy()

sorry for late response.