Resolving IOwinContext in MVC5 application using Autofac

Question

I have trouble using MembershipReboot with the new ASP MVC5 template and Autofac. I have used the default MVC5 template to set up the site and then tri

Answer 1

There's a newer sample that does DI with AutoFac for MVC:

https://github.com/brockallen/BrockAllen.MembershipReboot/blob/master/samples/SingleTenantOwinSystemWeb/SingleTenantOwinSystemWeb/Startup.cs

See if this helps.

If you don't want to use HttpContext.Current you could do something like this:

app.Use(async (ctx, next) =>
{
    // this creates a per-request, disposable scope
    using (var scope = container.BeginLifetimeScope(b =>
    {
        // this makes owin context resolvable in the scope
        b.RegisterInstance(ctx).As<IOwinContext>();
    }))
    {
        // this makes scope available for downstream frameworks
        ctx.Set<ILifetimeScope>("idsrv:AutofacScope", scope);
        await next();
    }
}); 

This is what we're doing internally for some of our apps. You'd need to wire up your Web API service resolver to look for "idsrv:AutofacScope". Tugberk has a post on this:

http://www.tugberkugurlu.com/archive/owin-dependencies--an-ioc-container-adapter-into-owin-pipeline