Use case: I want to add convenience methods to AbstractModule and PrivateModule (for easier Kotlin interop), and the issue is that most of the methods in *Module are protected, so the only way to add convenience methods for me is to subclass AbstractModule and PrivateModule.

However, the sub-classes are purely technical (abstract class KotlinModule : AbstractModule and abstract class KotlinPrivateModule : PrivateModule), so I want to exclude them from "source stack" so the exceptions point to the actual binder use rather than to the common KotlinModule and KotlinPrivateModule.

Here's what I do with AbstractModule, and it more-or-less works:

abstract class KotlinModule : AbstractModule() {
    override fun binder() =
        super.binder().skipSources(KotlinModule::class.java) // <-- Here I configure binder to ignore KotlinModule class

    protected inline fun <reified T : Any> bind() = bind(typeLiteral<T>())
    protected inline fun <reified T : Any> bind(name: String) =
        bind<T>().annotatedWith(Names.named(name))
...

The good part is that all default AbstractModule methods like bind(TypeLiteral<T> typeLiteral) use binder() method, so they use the overridden binder(), so all bindings get my skipSources configuration.

Unfortunately, that does not work for PrivateModule since binder() is final there.

abstract class KotlinPrivateModule : PrivateModule() {
    override fun binder() = // <-- this does not compile since binder() is final in PrivateModule
        super.binder().skipSources(KotlinModule::class.java)

    protected inline fun <reified T : Any> bind() = bind(typeLiteral<T>())
...

An alternative option is to make default bind(..) methods public, so Kotlin/Scala extensions could be added without subclassing AbstractModule.