What else Dagger 2 injection provides?

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Many a times, we just use Dagger 2 to inject dependencies. But it could provides more than that. Take for example the below code

class Dependency @Inject constructor()

@Component
interface MainComponent {
    fun inject(target: Target)
}

We think we could only get the Dependency object injected. But it also could provides the Provider<Dependency> and Lazy<Dependency>.

class Target {
    @Inject
    lateinit var dependency: Dependency
    @Inject
    lateinit var dependencyProvider: Provider<Dependency>
    @Inject
    lateinit var dependencyLazyProvider: Lazy<Dependency>

    init {
        DaggerMainComponent.builder().build().inject(this)
    }
}

Both Provider and Lazy could be used to generate Dependency object.

The question is, are they the same copy generated, or different copies generated each time?

Generation of Provider/Lazy and its dependencies

Assume we instantiate 2 target objects code, where each has their own set of Dependency, Provider and Lazy

val target1 = Target()
val target2 = Target()