I am developing a Web Api and I decided to use custom DependencyResolver. I refer this [Dependency Injection for Web API Controllers] article. Everything is working well so far in the terms of dependency injection into controllers. Code snippet of my configuration from my Owin startup class
private void RegisterIoC(HttpConfiguration config)
{
_unityContainer = new UnityContainer();
_unityContainer.RegisterType<IAccountService, AccountService>();
.........
.........
config.DependencyResolver = new UnityResolver(_unityContainer);
}
But at the time when Api starts for the very first time some ResolutionFailedException thrown (but catched) inside the UnityResolver's GetService method. Here is the exception message
"Exception occurred while: while resolving.
Exception is: InvalidOperationException -
The current type, System.Web.Http.Hosting.IHostBufferPolicySelector,
**is an interface and cannot be constructed. Are you missing a type mapping?**"
Above same exception thrown following types
System.Web.Http.Hosting.IHostBufferPolicySelector
System.Web.Http.Tracing.ITraceWriter
System.Web.Http.Metadata.ModelMetadataProvider
System.Web.Http.Tracing.ITraceManager
System.Web.Http.Dispatcher.IHttpControllerSelector
System.Web.Http.Dispatcher.IAssembliesResolver
System.Web.Http.Dispatcher.IHttpControllerTypeResolver
System.Web.Http.Controllers.IHttpActionSelector
System.Web.Http.Controllers.IActionValueBinder
System.Web.Http.Validation.IBodyModelValidator
System.Net.Http.Formatting.IContentNegotiator
I know that these ResolutionFailedException are thrown because I did not provide mappings in my unity configuration for above types.
Now here is my question :-, If I implement custom unity DependencyResolver I need to define mappings of above types and if need to define what will be their corresponding default implementation types OR is there some alternative way to implement DependencyResolver. I am really concerned even though application is running fine now, failing to resolve above type can cause serious issue later. Please help.
One final Addition:- For following types, same ResolutionFailedException thrown when I make request for any action into the my web api
System.Web.Http.Dispatcher.IHttpControllerActivator
System.Web.Http.Validation.IModelValidatorCache
System.Web.Http.Controllers.IHttpActionInvoker
As this seems to still get disputed, here's my version of the code...
and
Finally bits are the extensions to use the scoped container in the Owin middleware as well as straight WebAPI
The rationale for this is the original MVC Work Item where we see
and
From my own experience if you don't use this form of the code, it will work in debug etc but will not scale and start behaving strangely.