Using Ninject DI for both api and "regular" controllers in MVC4

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In a small mvc 4 project, I'm trying to implement dependency injection using ninject.

So far, I have it working with api controllers, but I'm not having any luck with regular controllers.

I have A NinjectResolver:

public class NinjectDependencyResolver : NinjectDependencyScope, IDependencyResolver
    {
        private readonly IKernel _kernel;

        public NinjectDependencyResolver(IKernel kernel)
            : base(kernel)
        {
            _kernel = kernel;
        }

        public IDependencyScope BeginScope()
        {
            return new NinjectDependencyScope(_kernel.BeginBlock());
        }

        public override void Dispose()
        {
            _kernel.Dispose();
        }
    }

And a NinjectScope:

public class NinjectDependencyScope : IDependencyScope
    {
        protected IResolutionRoot ResolutionRoot;

        public NinjectDependencyScope(IResolutionRoot kernel)
        {
            ResolutionRoot = kernel;
        }

        public object GetService(Type serviceType)
        {
            var request = ResolutionRoot.CreateRequest(serviceType, null, new Parameter[0], true, true);
            return ResolutionRoot.Resolve(request).SingleOrDefault();
        }

        public IEnumerable<object> GetServices(Type serviceType)
        {
            var request = ResolutionRoot.CreateRequest(serviceType, null, new Parameter[0], true, true);
            return ResolutionRoot.Resolve(request).ToList();
        }

        public void Dispose()
        {
            var disposable = (IDisposable)ResolutionRoot;
            if (disposable != null) disposable.Dispose();
            ResolutionRoot = null;
        }
    }

Then I set it up in my Global.asax:

var kernel = new StandardKernel();
            kernel.Bind(typeof(IRepository)).To(typeof(Repository));

            GlobalConfiguration.Configuration.DependencyResolver = new NinjectDependencyResolver(kernel);

Then I inject a repository into an api controller like this:

private IRepository _repository;

public TestApiController(IRepository repository)
{
    _repository = repository;
}

This works fine, but doing the same in a regular controller fails with the "No parameterless constructor defined for this object" error.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

ASP.NET MVC uses a different IDependencyResolver than ASP.NET WebAPi namelly Sytem.Web.Mvc.IDependencyResolver.

So you need a new NinjectDependencyResolver implementation for the MVC Controllers (luckily the MVC and WepAPi IDependencyResolver almost has the same members with the same signatures, so it's easy to implement)

public class NinjectMvcDependencyResolver : NinjectDependencyScope, 
                                            System.Web.Mvc.IDependencyResolver
{
    private readonly IKernel _kernel;

    public NinjectDependencyResolver(IKernel kernel)
        : base(kernel)
    {
        _kernel = kernel;
    }
}

And then you can register it in the Global.asax with:

DependencyResolver.SetResolver(new NinjectMvcDependencyResolver(kernel));