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Setting up Windsor for auto registration of components

I was asked how to do this, but this is frightfully simple:

controllersAsm = Assembly.Load("MyApp.Controlls")
for type in controllersAsm.GetTypes():
	if typeof(BaseController).IsAssignableFrom(type):
		Component(type.Name, type)

This example is using Binsor, executable configuration can do some really nice things.

Another option would be to build a facility to do this, which is about the same amount of code.

Print | posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 10:59 AM

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# re: Setting up Windsor for auto registration of components 6/8/2007 12:20 PM Jeremy Miller

That's only half the battle though. How do you retrieve these things later? IoC.Resolve<What?>(?)

I don't use it as much anymore, but I've always done this kind of thing with StructureMap's attributes where I can specify the instance name.

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# re: Setting up Windsor for auto registration of components 6/8/2007 1:35 PM Ayende Rahien

Well, it depends on how you want to handle that.
Right now I have to use web forms, so the View has a public property with the right type, so when it is initialized, it ask the controller for the instance, and it gets that.
It looks something like this:

public class HomePage : BasePage
{
public HomeController Controller { get {} set { } }

public void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
PoliciesRepeater.DataSource = Controller.GetPolicies();
DataBind();
}
}

Using MonoRail, I need to make sure that the names that I register the component under will follow the MR convention, so MR will resolve them magically from the container.

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# re: Setting up Windsor for auto registration of components 6/8/2007 1:47 PM joeyDotNet

Yep, using the Windsor facility with MonoRail is a joy. Now if I could just find the time to start using Binsor for configuration. Sometimes my Windsor xml configs can get quite large. From what I've seen, Binsor can greatly reduce the size...

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# re: Setting up Windsor for auto registration of components 6/8/2007 7:43 PM hammett

> Using MonoRail, I need to make sure that the
> names that I register the component under will
> follow the MR convention, so MR will resolve
> them magically from the container.

Not sure I'm following you here. What convention?

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# re: Setting up Windsor for auto registration of components 6/8/2007 7:56 PM Ayende Rahien

The "home.controller" convention.
I just looked at the code, and it looks like it i not actually need, though.

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# re: Setting up Windsor for auto registration of components 6/12/2007 4:13 AM Dave Newman

Perfect timing Ayende! I was just looking at how unnecessarily big my windsor config file was.

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