Dependency Injection with Generic Interface and Simple Injector

Question

I am trying to implement dependency injection with Simple Injector and ASP.NET Core. I have a class library for services and another class library for data access with repositories. My problem is, I have implemented dependency injection in my startup class (web api) to reference my services. Now I need to do the same in the services to injection dependency for repositories. But I don't have a startup class in my class library (services class library), so how can I do it?

public interface IBaseService<TEntity> where TEntity : class
    { }

Account service

    public interface IAccountService : IBaseService<User>
{ }


 private readonly IAccountRepository _repository;
    private readonly IUnitOfWork _unitOfWork;

    public AccountService(IAccountRepository repository, IUnitOfWork unitOfWork) : base (repository, unitOfWork)
    {
        _repository = repository;
        _unitOfWork = unitOfWork;
    }

Repository (in a different class library):

   public interface IBaseRepository<TEntity> where TEntity : class
{}

Steven · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-31T23:51:43.490

Your question boils down to the following simple question:

Where should we compose object graphs?

The answer to this question is:

As close as possible to the application's entry point.

This entry point is commonly referred to as the Composition Root.

In other words, all your dependencies should be wired up in the Composition Root, independently of in which layer they live. Your Composition Root is a layer on its own, and it knows about every other part of the system (as explained here).

So considering the displayed code, your Composition Root might look something as follows:

container.Register<IAccountService, AccountService>();
container.Register<IAccountRepository, AccountRepository>();
container.Register<IUnitOfWork, UnitOfWork>(Lifestyle.Scoped);

Long story short, libraries don't have a Composition Root and you don't wire dependencies in the library itself. You compose all object graphs solely in the startup project.

Dependency Injection with Generic Interface and Simple Injector

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