ASP.NET Core DependencyResolver

Question

In ASP.NET MVC 5 is possible to obtain some dependency through DependencyResolver.Current.GetService(). Is there something similar in ASP.NET Core?

Answer 1

Here is the way that worked for me in .Net core 2.0

public ViewResult IndexWithServiceLocatorPattern([FromServices]ProductTotalizer totalizer)
{
    var repository = (IRepository)HttpContext.RequestServices.GetService(typeof(IRepository));
    ViewBag.HomeController = repository.ToString();
    ViewBag.Totalizer = totalizer.repository.ToString();
    return View("Index", repository.Products);
}

If I have to do it with classical way, It would be like below.

public class HomeController : Controller
{
    private readonly IRepository repo;

    /// 

    /// MVC receives an incoming request to an action method on the Home controller. 
    /// MVC asks the ASP.NET service provider component for a new instance of the HomeController class.
    /// The service provider inspects the HomeController constructor and discovers that it has a dependency on the IRepository interface. 
    /// The service provider consults its mappings to find the implementation class it has been told to use for dependencies on the IRepository interface. 
    /// The service provider creates a new instance of the implementation class. 
    /// The service provider creates a new HomeController object, using the implementation object as a constructor argument.
    /// The service provider returns the newly created HomeController object to MVC, which uses it to handle the incoming HTTP request.
    /// 
    /// 
    public HomeController(IRepository repo)
    {
        this.repo = repo;
    }

    /// 

    ///  Using Action Injection
    ///  MVC uses the service provider to get an instance of the ProductTotalizer class and provides it as an
    ///  argument when the Index action method is invoked.Using action injection is less common than standard
    ///  constructor injection, but it can be useful when you have a dependency on an object that is expensive to
    ///  create and that is required in only one of the action methods defined by a controller
    /// 
    /// 
    /// 
    public ViewResult Index([FromServices]ProductTotalizer totalizer)
    {
        ViewBag.Total = totalizer.repository.ToString();
        ViewBag.HomeCotroller = repo.ToString();
        return View(repo.Products);
    }
}