IServiceProvider in ASP.NET Core

Question

I starting to learn changes in ASP.NET 5(vNext) and cannot find how to get IServiceProvider, for example in \"Model\"\'s method

public class Entity 
{
     publ         


        

Answer 1

Generally you want to have the DI do its thing and inject that for you:

public class Entity 
{
    private readonly IDataContext dbContext;

    // The DI will auto inject this for you
    public class Entity(IDataContext dbContext)
    {
        this.dbContext = dbContext;
    }

     public void DoSomething()
     {
         // dbContext is already populated for you
         var something = dbContext.Somethings.First();
     }
}

However, Entity would have to be automatically instantiated for you... like a Controller or a ViewComponent. If you need to manually instantiate this from a place where this dbContext is not available to you, then you can do this:

using Microsoft.Extensions.PlatformAbstractions;

public class Entity 
{
    private readonly IDataContext dbContext;

    public class Entity()
    {
        this.dbContext = (IDataContext)CallContextServiceLocator.Locator.ServiceProvider
                            .GetService(typeof(IDataContext));
    }

     public void DoSomething()
     {
         var something = dbContext.Somethings.First();
     }
}

But just to emphasize, this is considered an anti-pattern and should be avoided unless absolutely necessary. And... at the risk of making some pattern people really upset... if all else fails, you can add a static IContainer in a helper class or something and assign it in your StartUp class in the ConfigureServices method: MyHelper.DIContainer = builder.Build(); And this is a really ugly way to do it, but sometimes you just need to get it working.