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jahu
jahu

Reputation: 5657

Use a Nop Service outside of a controller?

I'm writing a custom validation attribute for validating zip\postal codes. For it to work I absolutely need to know the selected country. But it turns out to be surprisingly difficult to do.

In most view models nop passes the country using its id, which means I need to decipher it. The way to do it would be to use CountryService since it can translate the id to country name, but the problem is how do I actually do that.

If I were to create a new CountryService object I would have to also create and pass a number of dependencies (CacheService object etc.) and it sounds like the wrong way of achieving the result. So how do I actually use a Nop Service outside a controller (in my case inside a custom Validation Attribute)?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 174

Answers (1)

Marco Regueira
Marco Regueira

Reputation: 1088

You don't need to create the object but get an instance from the service locator.

Something like this:

var countryService= EngineContext.Current.Resolve<ICountryService>();

You can check any attribute in nopCommerce like WwwRequirementAttribute and check how it uses the locator pattern.

Upvotes: 3

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