Castle Windsor: Reuse resolved component in OnCreate, UsingFactoryMethod or DynamicParameters

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Published on 2010-04-30T19:30:20Z Indexed on 2010/04/30 19:37 UTC
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I'm trying to execute an action on a resolved component before it is returned as a dependency to the application.

For example, with this graph:

public class Foo : IFoo { }

public class Bar {
  IFoo _foo;
  IBaz _baz;
  public Bar(IFoo foo, IBaz baz) {
    _foo = foo;
    _baz = baz;
  }
}

When I create an instance of IFoo, I want the container to instantiate Bar and pass the already-resolved IFoo to it, along with any other dependencies it requires. So when I call:

var foo = container.Resolve<IFoo>();

The container should automatically call:

container.Resolve<Bar>(); // should pass foo and instantiate IBaz

I've tried using OnCreate, DynamicParameters and UsingFactoryMethod, but the problem they all share is that they don't hold an explicit reference to the component: DynamicParameters is called before IFoo is instantiated. OnCreate is called after, but the delegate doesn't pass the instance. UsingFactoryMethod doesn't help because I need to register these components with TService and TComponent.

Ideally, I'd like a registration to look something like this:

container.Register<IFoo, Foo>((kernel, foo) => kernel.Resolve<Bar>(new { foo }));

Note that IFoo and Bar are registered with the transient life style, which means that the already-resolved instance has to be passed to Bar - it can't be "re-resolved".

Is this possible? Am I missing something?

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