FluentValidation Autofac ValidatorFactory

Question

I need to be able to provide the IComponentContext to my ValidatorFactory to resolve FluentValidation Validators. I am a little stuck.

Validato

Answer 1

Rather than tightly couple it to Autofac, you can make it generally applicable to any DependencyResolver by using that directly:

public class ModelValidatorFactory : IValidatorFactory
{
  public IValidator GetValidator(Type type)
  {
    if (type == null)
    {
      throw new ArgumentNullException("type");
    }
    return DependencyResolver.Current.GetService(typeof(IValidator<>).MakeGenericType(type)) as IValidator;
  }

  public IValidator GetValidator()
  {
    return DependencyResolver.Current.GetService>();
  }
}

Then you can register your validators with any type of DependencyResolver as the strongly-typed IValidator and it will always end up resolving.