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Storyboards control the lifecycle of all objects and I don't think it is possible to hook into it. Controller's do not consistently call init internally either. Which means even if Objection were to overload init it wouldn't guarantee the controller was instantiated properly.

There are a number of callback methods you can use to fallback on (awakeFromNib for example) and use the default injector directly to inject your dependencies via the injectDependencies: method.

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Fair enough, but is it possible to have injectDependencies: inject THE Storyboard-created ViewController into Objection-instantiated objects? At present, if you try to do this with Objection, no ViewControllers are found in the object cache and therefore a second ViewController is created: not the behaviour we want!

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is there a way of obtaining a reference to the Storyboard-initialised ViewController in a JSObjectionModule definition such that we can call bind:toProtocol: or bind:toClass: onto it?

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Another way this could work is if Objection permits users to insert objects into the object cache, which then injectDependencies uses. Setting up the correct delegates is a very useful use case...

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injectDependencies: does not add to the injector context. It instead supplies the dependencies noted in objection_requires to the object passed into it.

If you want a reference to that view controller via Objection you could build a new injector with that view controller via a module using the said approach above.

Conversely, you could use a provider where the provider has hooks for adding the storyboard created VC to it.

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