Unity Framework and Multiple Constructors Injection

Question

I have a class as a dependency:

public class Foo {
    public Foo() {
        // default constructor
    }

    public Foo(IMyInterface my) {
    }
}

When I tried to inject it into another class I got error message as

Resolution of the dependency failed ...... InvalidOperationException - The current type, IMyInterface, is an interface and cannot be constructed. Are you missing a type mapping?

I never registered IMyInterface with any concrete type, because I reserve this constructor for other purpose.

With my understanding Unity will try to resolve constructor with least parameters first if not clearily instructing it which one to resolve. So it will try to initialize the default constroctor.

Other than I use InjectionConstructorAttribute, is there a smart way I can tell Unity to ignore the 2nd constructor?

Wiktor Zychla · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-29 16:12:10Z

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It's the opposite - Unity will try to resolve a constructor with MOST parameters first. You can use InjectionConstructor attribute over one of your constructors to tell unity to prefer this constructor over others.

answered Dec 29, 2011 at 16:12

Wiktor Zychla

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Tim Sylvester · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-31 15:57:01Z

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You can indicate in the configuration that the zero-parameter constructor should be used:

<register type="IFoo" mapTo="Foo">
    <lifetime type="external"/>
    <constructor />
</register>

answered May 31, 2012 at 15:57

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