Is nesting @Assisted possible?

[ursusursus]

Hi, I'm migrating from dagger and noticed this library supports assisted injection natively, so I'm triying it out (I didn't use it in dagger because of the extra dependency).

At UI layer I have conductor Controller (Fragment equivalent), which has all the lifecycle callbacks & functions + it implements navigation for me

class ChatViewModel(
    private val dispatcherProvider: DispatcherProvider,
    private val intentHelper: IntentHelper,
    private val navigator: ChatNavigator
)

class ChatController : conductor.Controller, ChatNavigator

interface ChatNavigator {
    fun goToFoo()
}

class IntentHelper(private val controller: Controller)

My current solution for this is to have a manual Factory

class ChatViewModelFactory @Inject constructor(
    private val dispatcherProvider: DispatcherProvider,
) {
    fun create(controller: ChatController) {
        return ChatViewModel(
            dispatcherProvider = dispatcherProvider,
            intentHelper = IntentHelper(controller),
            navigator = controller
        )
    }
}

Is this something I can do away with using @Assisted?
Simple example obviously works

@Inject
class ChatViewModel(
    private val dispatcherProvider: DispatcherProvider,
    @Assisted private val navigator: ChatNavigator
)

But adding the IntentHelper causes me trouble

@Inject
class ChatViewModel(
    private val dispatcherProvider: DispatcherProvider,
    private val intentHelper: IntentHelper, <------------
    @Assisted private val navigator: ChatNavigator
)

@Inject
class IntentHelper(@Assisted private val controller: Controller) <------

I'm trying to have it be part of the graph & have the controller asgument be assisted, but that then obviously requires the view model to depend on the factory private val intentHelper: (Controller) -> IntentHelper,, not the type itself

So .. is this even possible, or am I stuck with manual factories? (to not have Controller dependency explicitly in viewmodel constructor signature)

[evant]

I'm not sure I'm following your question, how would you expect to pass the controller arg?