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  "@context": {
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    "schema": "https://schema.org/"
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  "name": "Dependency Injection Vocabulary",
  "description": "Controlled vocabulary for the Dependency Injection design pattern.",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "terms": [
    {
      "term": "DependencyInjection",
      "definition": "A pattern where an external assembler supplies a component's collaborators rather than the component creating them itself."
    },
    {
      "term": "InversionOfControl",
      "definition": "The principle that a framework controls program flow and component wiring, of which DI is one expression."
    },
    {
      "term": "Dependency",
      "definition": "An object, service, or value that a component requires in order to do its work."
    },
    {
      "term": "Collaborator",
      "definition": "A dependency invoked by a component to fulfill part of its responsibility."
    },
    {
      "term": "ConstructorInjection",
      "definition": "Injection style that supplies dependencies through the constructor."
    },
    {
      "term": "SetterInjection",
      "definition": "Injection style that supplies dependencies through setter methods after construction."
    },
    {
      "term": "InterfaceInjection",
      "definition": "Injection style in which the dependent implements an interface that the container calls to provide the dependency."
    },
    {
      "term": "MethodInjection",
      "definition": "Injection style that passes dependencies as parameters to specific methods."
    },
    {
      "term": "CompositionRoot",
      "definition": "The single location, near program entry, where the object graph is assembled."
    },
    {
      "term": "DIContainer",
      "definition": "Framework component that resolves and wires dependencies based on registrations."
    },
    {
      "term": "ServiceLocator",
      "definition": "Alternative pattern in which components actively request dependencies from a registry."
    },
    {
      "term": "Lifetime",
      "definition": "Policy describing how long a resolved instance lives (singleton, scoped, transient)."
    },
    {
      "term": "Registration",
      "definition": "Mapping from a service abstraction to its implementation and lifetime within a container."
    },
    {
      "term": "Resolution",
      "definition": "Process of obtaining an instance of a registered service, recursively resolving its own dependencies."
    },
    {
      "term": "Decorator",
      "definition": "Wrapping component registered with the container to add behavior around an existing service."
    },
    {
      "term": "Interceptor",
      "definition": "Component that participates in the resolution pipeline to apply cross-cutting concerns."
    }
  ]
}