Self-Registering Libraries with Autofac 4 and vNext

Question

i\'d like to create a Plugin Enviroment for my ASP.Net 5.0 / MVC 6 Application. I\'m using Autofac as IOC Container and i like to load the Plugins (Class Libraries) from the

Answer 1

It's a shame that ConfigureServices is not injectable, that would make this a lot easier.

Looking at the code you should be safe to replace the IServiceProvider inside Configure(...) instead of inside ConfigureServices(...) and get the intended behavior. ApplicationServices is setable.

In your UseAutofac method you should be able to do something like:

public static IApplicationBuilder UseAutofac( [NotNull] this IApplicationBuilder applicationBuilder )
{
    IAutofacResolver autofacResolver = applicationBuilder.GetService();
    ILibraryManager libraryManager = applicationBuilder.GetService();

    autofacResolver.RegisterLibraryModules( libraryManager);
    applicationBuilder.ApplicationServices = autofacResolver.Resolve();

    return applicationBuilder;
}