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Cosmin Ionascu
Cosmin Ionascu

Reputation: 7508

Unity configuration error - type does not have constructor that takes parameters

Background: I have a helper class that I use to set the policies for the ExceptionManager. In this class I want to inject various implementations of the IExceptionHandler interface and I want to control this via a configuration file.

So this is how things look: Helper class and interface:

public class ErrorHelper: IErrorHelper
{
    private static IExceptionHandler _exceptionHandler;
    public ErrorHelper(IExceptionHandler exceptionHandler)
    {
        _exceptionHandler = exceptionHandler;
    }

    public IList<ExeptionPolicyDefinition> GetPolicies()
    {
        //Do stuff here and return policies
        //This is the place where _exceptionHandler is used
    }
}
public interface IErrorHelper
{
    IList<ExeptionPolicyDefinition> GetPolicies();
}

IExceptionHandler implementation:

public class MyExceptionHandler: IExceptionHandler
{
    public MyExceptionHandler()
    {
        //Do some stuff here
    }
    public Exception HandleException(Exception exp, Guid iId)
    {
        //Handle exception and log
    }
}

The unity bootstrap class:

public class UnityBootstrap
{
    private static IUnityContainer _unityContainer;
    public static void RegisterTypes(IUnityContainer container)
    {
        _unityContainer = container;
        var section = (UnityConfigurationSection)ConfigurationManager.GetSection("unity");
        section.Configure(_unityContainer);
    }
    public static void SetPolicies()
    {
        var helper = _unityContainer.Resolve<IErrorHelper>();
        //Set ExceptionManager and ExceptionPolicy
    }
}

Unity configuration file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unity xmlns="http://schemas/microsoft.com/practices/2010/unity">
    <alias alias="IExceptionHandler" type="Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.ExceptionHandling.IExceptionHandler, Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.ExceptionHandling, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"/>
    <alias alias="MyExceptionHandler" type="TEST.Shared.MyExceptionHandler, Test.Shared"/>
    <alias alias="ErrorHelper" type="TEST.Helpers.Errorhelper, TEST.Helpers"/>
    <alias alias="IErrorHelper" type="TEST.Helpers.IErrorhelper, TEST.Helpers"/>
    <container>
        <register type="IExceptionHandler" mapTo="MyExceptionHandler"/>
        <register type="IErrorHelper" mapTo="ErrorHelper">
             <constructor>
                 <param name="exceptionHandler" type="MyExceptionHandler">
                     <dependency type="MyExceptionHandler"/>
                 </param>
             </constructor>
        </register>
    </container>
</unity>

So, after a lot of writing and formatting, this is a simplification of what I have. The problem is that when I call RegisterTypes I get the error in the title, stating that there is no constructor for ErrorHelper that accepts parameters of name exceptionHandler when clearly the parameter name in the constructor is exceptionHandler.

If anyone can point to where I'm going wrong with this please do.

PS1: Sorry for the long question

PS2: I'm pretty new to DI and Unity

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2379

Answers (1)

jlvaquero
jlvaquero

Reputation: 8785

The type of the parameter in the constructor is IExceptionHandler not MyExceptionHandler.

Try: <param name="exceptionHandler" type="IExceptionHandler">

Upvotes: 2

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