Hi Alistair,

Given you have understanding of Structure Map IOC then Light Inject would be easier for you to pickup. In Umbraco 8, LightInject is the engine that they do use to implement IoC.

I have tried Light Inject and I am delighted to discover the new features.

Cheers,

Shaishav

Just found this in the Registry Factory.

/// To override the default LightInjectContainer, add an appSetting named 'Umbraco.Core.RegisterType' with /// a fully qualified type name to a class with a static method "Create" returning an IRegister.

Going try that

Using the above we have attempted to create a structure map container and came across issues where Umbraco dependencies were not registering. We, therefore, have now reverted back to light inject and created extension methods.

We are struggling to register all implementations of a given generic type. For example, given a base class or interface with generic parameters, register all implementations that derive from the base class

This is/was achievable in StructureMap using assembly scanning:

scan.ConnectImplementationsToTypesClosing(typeof(IRepository<>));

As far as I can see, there is no way to do this with LightInject, meaning I would have to register each and every implementation of the base class

We have tried the following without success

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48780797/using-lightinject-to-register-all-classes-that-implement-a-generic-interface?rq=1

Struggling to identify a solution to this, does anyone have any ideas

Same for us, struggling with transition from StructureMap to LightInject. We want to accomplish this (from StructureMap):

// Scan adapters for Command/Query handlers.
        container.Configure(
            x => x.Scan(
                y =>
                {
                    y.Assembly("AssemblyX");
                    y.Assembly("AssemblyY");
                    y.Assembly("AssemblyZ");
                    y.AddAllTypesOf(typeof(ICommandHandler<>));
                    y.AddAllTypesOf(typeof(IQueryHandler<,>));
                    y.WithDefaultConventions();
                }));

Relevant github issue https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/issues/7502

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