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FMM
FMM

Reputation: 4329

Dependency Injection: How to configure interface bindings for wrapping

So, let's say I have an interface IThingFactory:

public interface IThingFactory
{
    Thing GetThing(int thingId);
}

Now, let's say I have a concrete implementation that retrieves Things from a database. Now, let's also say I have a concrete implementation that wraps an existing IThingFactory and checks for a Thing's presence in, say, an in-memory cache before hitting the wrapped IThingFactory. Something like:

public class CachedThingFactory : IThingFactory
{
    private IThingFactory _wrapped;
    private Dictionary<int, Thing> _cachedThings;

    public CachedThingFactory(IThingFactory wrapped)
    {
        this._wrapped = wrapped;
        _cachedThings = new Dictionary<int,Thing>();
    }

    public Thing GetThing(int thingId)
    {
        Thing x;
        if(_cachedThings.TryGetValue(thingId, out x))
            return x;

        x = _wrapped.GetThing(thingId);

        _cachedThings[thingId] = x;

        return x;
    }
}

How would I deal with a scenario like this using dependency injection with something like, say, Ninject, so that I could configure the DI container so that I can inject or remove a caching proxy like this, or, say, something that does logging, or (insert here)?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 945

Answers (3)

Pete
Pete

Reputation: 11495

You can do something along the lines of:

Bind<IThingFactory> ().To<DefaultThingFactory> ().WhenInjectedInto<CachedThingFactory> ();
Bind<IThingFactory> ().To<CachedThingFactory> ();

This will let consumers not need to specify a name attribute, and is still relatively easy to further enhance. If you later wanted to add an additional "decorator" layer for logging, you could do:

Bind<IThingFactory> ().To<DefaultThingFactory> ().WhenInjectedInto<LoggingThingFactory> ();
Bind<IThingFactory> ().To<LoggingThingFactory> ().WhenInjectedInto<CachedThingFactory> ();
Bind<IThingFactory> ().To<CachedThingFactory> ();

Not the prettiest, but it works.

Upvotes: 5

Andreas
Andreas

Reputation: 5309

I suppose you are searching for named binding, documented here:

https://github.com/ninject/ninject/wiki/Contextual-Binding

Bind<IThingFactory>().To<CachedThingFactory>().Named("TheCachedThing");
Bind<IThingFactory>().To<DefaultThingFactory >().Named("ThePureThing");

and then

public CachedThingFactory([Named("ThePureThing")] IThingFactory wrapped)
{
    this._wrapped = wrapped;
    _cachedThings = new Dictionary<int,Thing>();
}

and for the consumer of the CachedThingFactory

public ThingFactoryConsumer([Named("TheCachedThing")] IThingFactory thingFactory)
{
   _thingFactory = thingFactory;
}

Upvotes: 2

Mrchief
Mrchief

Reputation: 76218

One of the benefits of DI framework is that you don't have to do things like these. Ninject has various scopes that you can use to specify the lifetime of your objects. It'll handle caching and stuff for you.

Read more here: http://kohari.org/2009/03/06/cache-and-collect-lifecycle-management-in-ninject-20/

Upvotes: 2

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