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At the moment, I have a custom ControllerFactory into which I inject my Unity container:
in global.asax Application_Start():
var container = InitContainer();
DependencyResolver.SetResolver(new UnityDependencyResolver(container));
var factory = new UnityControllerFactory(container);
ControllerBuilder.Current.SetControllerFactory(factory);
In the controller factory I set my controllers to use a custom ActionInvoker like so:
protected override IController GetControllerInstance(System.Web.Routing.RequestContext requestContext, Type controllerType)
{
var controller = base.GetControllerInstance(requestContext, controllerType) as Controller;
if (controller != null)
controller.ActionInvoker = new UnityActionInvoker(_container);
return controller;
}
Finally in my custom ActionInvoker, I attempt to buildup actions being invoked using the ActionInvokers container:
protected override ActionExecutedContext InvokeActionMethodWithFilters(
ControllerContext controllerContext,
IList<IActionFilter> filters,
ActionDescriptor actionDescriptor,
IDictionary<string, object> parameters)
{
var builtUpFilters = new List<IActionFilter>();
foreach (IActionFilter actionFilter in filters)
{
builtUpFilters.Add(_container.BuildUp<IActionFilter>(actionFilter));
}
return base.InvokeActionMethodWithFilters(controllerContext, builtUpFilters, actionDescriptor, parameters);
}
Here is an example of one of the ActionFilters that is being built up:
public class PopulatRolesAttribute : ActionFilterAttribute, IActionFilter
{
private const string RolesKey = "roles";
[Dependency]
public Func<IMetadataService> Service { get; set; }
public PopulatRolesAttribute()
{
}
public override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)