Dependency Injection and PostSharp

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Hello everyone,

I'm using PostSharp to implement logging and security aspects in my application. PostSharp uses attributes to decorate methods with aspects which are then modified at compile time.

Does anyone know of a way that I can use dependency injection with these aspects? I'm currently using a static service locator to resolve the dependencies from the container but it's not as clean and decoupled as I want.

Any ideas?

Posted 3-Sep-12 21:49pm

jim lahey

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Martijn Kok · Answer 1 · 2012-09-04T00:47:00

In a book I recently read about dependency injection (Dependency Injection in .NET by Mark Seemann [^]) there is a chapter (chapter 9) that might interest you. The chapter is about interception. Dynamic interception is discussed and compared with using the decorator pattern and using attributes with PostSharp.

Dynamic interception is able to dynamically wrap the methods of a decorator with for instance code about logging or exception handling. Multiple interceptors can be used on a decorator. I haven't studied it enough to know if it will be sufficient with all security aspects of an application.

An example using Castle Windsor can be found here: http://blog.ploeh.dk/2010/09/20/InstrumentationWithDecoratorsAndInterceptors.aspx[^]

Not all DI containers support dynamic interception. Castle Windsor, Spring.net and Unity (probably others too) support it. In the book there are examples for all tree DI containers andthe use with interception.