castle PerRequestLifestyle not recognize

Question

New to Castle/Windsor, please bear with me.

I am currently using the framework System.Web.Mvc.Extensibility and in its start up code, it registered HttpContextBase l

Answer 1

As of this writing, PerWebRequest lifestyle does not support resolving in Application_Start().

See issue description and discussion:

• http://support.castleproject.org/projects/IOC/issues/view/IOC-ISSUE-166
• http://groups.google.com/group/castle-project-users/browse_thread/thread/d44d96f4b548611e

Workarounds for this particular case:

1. Register RegisterRoutes as an instance, explicitly passing it the current context as constructor parameter, e.g.:

   container.Register(Component.For()
                               .Instance(new RegisterRoutes(Context)));
   

2. Use HostingEnvironment.MapPath instead of contextBase.Server.MapPath. Want to make it mockable? Use it through a simple interface, e.g.:

   interface IServerMapPath {
       string MapPath(string virtualPath);
   }
   
   class ServerMapPath: IServerMapPath {
       public string MapPath(string virtualPath) {
           return HostingEnvironment.MapPath(virtualPath);
       }
   }
   
   container.AddComponent();
   

Then inject IServerMapPath into your RegisterRoutes.