I have inherited my view model class from INavigateAware interface as below,
public class ViewModel : INavigationAware
{
public ViewModel()
{
}
public void OnNavigatedFrom(NavigationParameters parameters)
{
}
public void OnNavigatedTo(NavigationParameters parameters)
{
// some codes
}
}
And called that view model in the associated view(the page I have been navigated to)
public partial class Page1 : ContentPage
{
ViewModel viewModel;
public Page1()
{
InitializeComponent();
viewModel = new ViewModel();
this.Content = myview; //myview is my control like grid
}
}
Now my problem is when I navigate to this page(Page1), OnNavigateTo() method in ViewModel is not triggered. Please someone helps me how to make trigger OnNavigateTo() method.
Thanks in advance.
First thing first, check if you have AutowireViewModel parameter in your page class set to True.
Second, you should not assign view model yourself, prism will do that for you, when you call PushViewModel
Third there is well known limitation in prism:
https://github.com/PrismLibrary/Prism/issues/563
There is also workaround suggested:
Create interface:
public interface IPageNavigationAware
{
void OnAppearing();
void OnDisappearing();
}
Derive your ViewModel class from this interface.
In the Views code behind:
protected override void OnAppearing()
{
(BindingContext as IPageNavigationAware)?.OnAppearing();
}
protected override void OnDisappearing()
{
(BindingContext as IPageNavigationAware)?.OnDisappearing();
}
The problem with that is that OnAppearing/OnDissapparing are not reliable navigation methods and do not accept parameters, but rather page lifecycle methods. They do not indicate when a page has been navigated to or from. You can have instances where a parent page can be appearing at the same time as multiple child pages are appearing. This will be addressed when Xamarin provides a proper navigation API.
A question that has come to my mind. Let's say I want to pass a variable theVar to the event handler declaration below
new EventHandler<AsyncCompletedEventArgs>(evHandler)
and receive it in the definition below:
public void evHandler(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}
How do I proceed?
If you are the person writing the code that's raising the event, Mr. Hopkinson puts it very nicely in his answer. You need a custom EventArgs with properties to represent the data you hope to pass.
But if you are merely consuming the event rather than raising it, your options are more limited.
Since you're anticipating receiving an AsyncCompletedEventArgs from your event, though, you do have one option: the UserState propery of AsyncCompletedEventArgs. This is a property you get to supply when you call the asynchronous method that ultimately causes the event to be fired. It can be any object you choose. You supply it when you call the async method, and the event returns it to you in the event argument properties when the method call completes.
Define a descendant of EventArgs
e.g.
public class MySpecialEventArgs :EventArgs
{
public int theVar {get; private set;}
public MySpecialEventArgs(int argVar)
{
theVar = argVar;
}
}
Then when you raise the event throw one of the above in instead of a EventArgs
When you add your handler e will be a MySpecialEventArgs.
I have a static class with a custom event in it, as below:
//The delegate
public static delegate void eventDoneDelegate(object sender, WebLoaderEventArgs e);
//The event that uses the delegate
public static event eventDoneDelegate PageRequestDone;
//Calls the event
private static void onPageRequestDoneChanged(WebLoaderEventArgs e)
{
if (PageRequestDone != null)
PageRequestDone(this, e);
}
I know "this" can't be used because it references the current instance, but how can I pass the currect class as a parameter?
Or maybe my logic is wrong, please aware me as I am new to this.
Thanks.
The semantic meaning of the sender argument value depends on a vague agreement between the event publisher and the event subscribers; there is no universal standard. In your example, I can't see any need for a sender value at all, you might as well pass null.
I am fairly new to Ninject as well and DI in general. I use NHibernate as my ORM for my MVC app and have been quite happy with my results. That is, until I upgraded from Ninject 2.1 to 2.2.
Now, I get errors within my NinjectWebsiteApplication class due to using Ninject’s Kernel as a resource locator.
Example:
void NinjectWebsiteApplication_BeginRequest(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
ILogger logger = Kernel.Get<ILogger>();
logger.Debug(“**********REQUEST BEGIN****************”);
logger.Debug(“**** URL = ” + Request.Url.AbsolutePath);
}
Example 2:
protected override void OnApplicationStarted()
{
var bootstrapper = Kernel.Get<Bootstrapper>();
bootstrapper.RegisterAllAreas();
AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();
......
(More stuff here, like AutoMapper mappings, etc.)
......
}
*The Bootstrapper class is a class I created where I register my routes, global filters, etc.
In both of the above examples, I receive a warning about the Kernel.Get() functions that states the following:
'Ninject.Web.Mvc.NinjectHttpApplication.Kernel' is obsolete: "Do not use Ninject as Service Locator"
After conducting several searches on this, the general consensus is that this is true.
I am trying to work around this, but am at a bit of a loss as to what to do.
I loaded the newest Ninject.Web.Mvc NuGet package which creates the NinjectMVC3 static class under the App_Start folder. I see that they're referencing Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure.DynamicModuleHelper, but I don't see where that fits in to what I'm trying to do.
If anyone has any hints that will help me fix my little mess, I would greatly appreciate it!
The way to deal with the first is not to use the NinjectWebsiteApplication_BeginRequest event but to write a custom global action filter:
public class LogActionFilterAttribute : ActionFilterAttribute
{
private readonly ILogger _logger;
public LogActionFilterAttribute(ILogger logger)
{
_logger = logger;
}
public override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
{
_logger.Debug("**********REQUEST BEGIN****************");
_logger.Debug("**** URL = " + filterContext.HttpContext.Request.Url.AbsolutePath);
}
}
and then in your App_Start/NinjectMVC3.cs:
/// <summary>
/// Load your modules or register your services here!
/// </summary>
/// <param name="kernel">The kernel.</param>
private static void RegisterServices(IKernel kernel)
{
kernel.Bind<ILogger>().To<Logger>();
kernel.BindFilter<LogActionFilterAttribute>(FilterScope.Global, 1);
}
Don't forget to add using Ninject.Web.Mvc.FilterBindingSyntax; in order to bring the BindFilter<> extension method into scope.
And since you have access to the kernel inside the RegisterServices method which happens at application startup you could wire up everything else including your bootstrapper, ...
As far as your Global.asax is concerned you no longer use any Ninject specific stuff in it. You should not derive from NinjectApplication.
The WebActivator infrastructure allows you to have a separate initialization method.
I have a MVC 3 web application, where I am using the Entity Framework for the data access. Furthermore, I have made a simple use of the repository pattern, where e.g. all Product related stuff is handled in the "ProductRepository" and all User related stuff is handled in the "UserRepository".
Thus, I am using the UNITY container, to make a singleton instance of the DataContext, which I inject into each of the repositories. A quick search on Google, and everyone recommends you to NOT use a singleton instance of the DataContext, as it might give you some memory leaks in the future.
So, inspired by this post, making a singleton instance of the DataContext for each web request is the answer (please correct me if I am wrong!)
http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/gilf/archive/2010/05/18/how-to-manage-objectcontext-per-request-in-asp-net.aspx
However, UNITY does not support the "Per-web-request" lifetime manager. But, it is possible to implement your own custom lifetime manager, which handles this for you. Actually, this is discussed in this post :
Singleton Per Call Context (Web Request) in Unity
The question is, I have now implemented the custom lifetime manager as described in the above post, but I am unsure if this is the way to do it. I am also wondering about where the datacontext instance is disposed in the provided solution? Am I missing out something?
Is there actually a better way of solving my "issue"?
Thanks!
** Added information about my implementation **
The following is snippets from my Global.asax, Controller and Repository. This gives a clear picture of my implementation.
Global.asax
var container = new UnityContainer();
container
.RegisterType<ProductsRepository>(new ContainerControlledLifetimeManager())
.RegisterType<CategoryRepository>(new ContainerControlledLifetimeManager())
.RegisterType<MyEntities>(new PerResolveLifetimeManager(), dbConnectionString)
Controller
private ProductsRepository _productsRepository;
private CategoryRepository _categoryRepository;
public ProductsController(ProductsRepository productsRepository, CategoryRepository categoryRepository)
{
_productsRepository = productsRepository;
_categoryRepository = categoryRepository;
}
public ActionResult Index()
{
ProductCategory category = _categoryRepository.GetProductCategory(categoryId);
.
.
.
}
protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
{
base.Dispose(disposing);
_productsRepository.Dispose();
_categoryRepository.Dispose();
}
Product Repository
public class ProductsRepository : IDisposable
{
private MyEntities _db;
public ProductsRepository(MyEntities db)
{
_db = db;
}
public Product GetProduct(Guid productId)
{
return _db.Product.Where(x => x.ID == productId).FirstOrDefault();
}
public void Dispose()
{
this._db.Dispose();
}
Controller Factory
public class UnityControllerFactory : DefaultControllerFactory
{
IUnityContainer _container;
public UnityControllerFactory(IUnityContainer container)
{
_container = container;
}
protected override IController GetControllerInstance(RequestContext requestContext, Type controllerType)
{
if (controllerType == null)
{
throw new HttpException(404, String.Format("The controller for path '{0}' could not be found" +
"or it does not implement IController.",
requestContext.HttpContext.Request.Path));
}
return _container.Resolve(controllerType) as IController;
}
}
Addition information
Hi, I will post additional links that I come across, concerning the related issue and solution suggestions:
https://github.com/geersch/EntityFrameworkObjectContext
http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/ado_net/Managing-Entity-Framework-ObjectContext-lifespan-and-scope-in-n-layered-ASP-NET-applications.aspx
attaching linq to sql datacontext to httpcontext in business layer
http://weblogs.asp.net/shijuvarghese/archive/2008/10/24/asp-net-mvc-tip-dependency-injection-with-unity-application-block.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738470.aspx
Yes do not share context and use one context per request. You can also check linked questions in that post to see all problems which a shared context caused.
Now about Unity. Idea of PerCallContextLifetimeManager works but I think provided implementation will not work for more than one object. You should use PerHttpRequestLifetimeManager directly:
public class PerHttpRequestLifetime : LifetimeManager
{
// This is very important part and the reason why I believe mentioned
// PerCallContext implementation is wrong.
private readonly Guid _key = Guid.NewGuid();
public override object GetValue()
{
return HttpContext.Current.Items[_key];
}
public override void SetValue(object newValue)
{
HttpContext.Current.Items[_key] = newValue;
}
public override void RemoveValue()
{
var obj = GetValue();
HttpContext.Current.Items.Remove(obj);
}
}
Be aware that Unity will not dispose context for you. Also be aware that default UnityContainer implementation will never call RemoveValue method.
If your implementation resolves all repositories in single Resolve call (for example if your controllers receives instances of repositories in constructor and you are resolving controllers) you don't need this lifetime manager. In such case use build-in (Unity 2.0) PerResolveLifetimeManager.
Edit:
I see pretty big problem in your provided configuration of UnityContainer. You are registering both repositories with ContainerControllerLifetimeManager. This lifetime manager means Singleton instance per container lifetime. It means that both repositories will be instantiated only once and instance will be stored and reused for subsequent calls. Because of that it doesn't matter what lifetime did you assign to MyEntities. It is injected to repositories' constructors which will be called only once. Both repositories will use still that single instance of MyEntities created during their construction = they will use single instance for whole lifetime of your AppDomain. That is the worst scenario you can achieve.
Rewrite your configuration this way:
var container = new UnityContainer();
container
.RegisterType<ProductsRepository>()
.RegisterType<CategoryRepository>()
.RegisterType<MyEntities>(new PerResolveLifetimeManager(), dbConnectionString);
Why this is enough? You are resolving controller which is dependent on repsitories but no repository instance is needed more then once so you can use default TransientLifetimeManager which will create new instance for each call. Because of that repository constructor is called and MyEntities instance must be resolved. But you know that multiple repositories can need this instance so you will set it with PerResolveLifetimeManager => each resolving of controller will produce only one instance of MyEntities.
As of Unity 3, there is already a built-in lifetime manager per http request.
PerRequestLifetimeManager
A LifetimeManager that holds onto the instance given to it during the lifetime of a single HTTP request. This lifetime manager enables you to create instances of registered types that behave like singletons within the scope of an HTTP request. See remarks for important usage information.
Remarks by MSDN
Although the PerRequestLifetimeManager lifetime manager works correctly and can help in working with stateful or thread-unsafe dependencies within the scope of an HTTP request, it is generally not a good idea to use it when it can be avoided, as it can often lead to bad practices or hard to find bugs in the end-user's application code when used incorrectly.
It is recommended that the dependencies you register are stateless and if there is a need to share common state between several objects during the lifetime of an HTTP request, then you can have a stateless service that explicitly stores and retrieves this state using the Items collection of the Current object.
The remarks say that even you are forced to use a single context per service (facade service), you should keep your service calls stateless.
Unity 3 is for .NET 4.5 by the way.
I believe the sample code shown on NerdDinner: DI in MVC using Unity for its HttpContextLifetimeManager should meet your needs.
I don't want to unnecessarily discourage you and by all means experiment but if you go ahead and use singleton instances of DataContext make sure you nail it.
It can appear to work fine on your dev environment but it could be failing to close connections properly. This will be hard to see without the load of a production environment. On a production environment with high load, undisposed connections will cause huge memory leaks and then high CPU trying to allocate new memory.
Have you considered what you are gaining from a connection per request pattern? How much performance there is to gain from opening/closing a connection once over say 3-4 times in a request? Worth the hassle? Also this makes lazy loading fails (read database queries in your view) a lot easier offences to make.
Sorry if this came across discouraging. Go for it if you really see the benefit. I'm just warning you that it could backfire quite seriously if you get it wrong so be warned. Something like entity profiler will be invaluable to getting it right - it tells you number of connections opened and closed - amongst other very useful things.
I saw question and answer few times ago. It is dated. Unity.MVC3 has life time manager as HierarchicalLifetimeManager.
container.RegisterType<OwnDbContext>(
"",
new HierarchicalLifetimeManager(),
new InjectionConstructor(connectionString)
);
and it works nice.
I would propose to solve it like this:
http://forums.asp.net/t/1644386.aspx/1
Best regards
I solved this by using Castle.DynamicProxy. I needed to have certain dependencies be injected "On Demand" meaning they needed to be resolved at time of use, not at time of "Depender" build up.
To do this I configure my container like so:
private void UnityRegister(IUnityContainer container)
{
container.RegisterType<HttpContextBase>(new OnDemandInjectionFactory<HttpContextBase>(c => new HttpContextWrapper(HttpContext.Current)));
container.RegisterType<HttpRequestBase>(new OnDemandInjectionFactory<HttpRequestBase>(c => new HttpRequestWrapper(HttpContext.Current.Request)));
container.RegisterType<HttpSessionStateBase>(new OnDemandInjectionFactory<HttpSessionStateBase>(c => new HttpSessionStateWrapper(HttpContext.Current.Session)));
container.RegisterType<HttpServerUtilityBase>(new OnDemandInjectionFactory<HttpServerUtilityBase>(c => new HttpServerUtilityWrapper(HttpContext.Current.Server)));
}
The idea being that I provide a method to retrieve the instance "on demand." The lambda gets invoked whenever any of the methods of the instance are used. The Dependent object is actually holding a reference to a proxied object, no the object itself.
OnDemandInjectionFactory:
internal class OnDemandInjectionFactory<T> : InjectionFactory
{
public OnDemandInjectionFactory(Func<IUnityContainer, T> proxiedObjectFactory) : base((container, type, name) => FactoryFunction(container, type, name, proxiedObjectFactory))
{
}
private static object FactoryFunction(IUnityContainer container, Type type, string name, Func<IUnityContainer, T> proxiedObjectFactory)
{
var interceptor = new OnDemandInterceptor<T>(container, proxiedObjectFactory);
var proxyGenerator = new ProxyGenerator();
var proxy = proxyGenerator.CreateClassProxy(type, interceptor);
return proxy;
}
}
OnDemandInterceptor:
internal class OnDemandInterceptor<T> : IInterceptor
{
private readonly Func<IUnityContainer, T> _proxiedInstanceFactory;
private readonly IUnityContainer _container;
public OnDemandInterceptor(IUnityContainer container, Func<IUnityContainer, T> proxiedInstanceFactory)
{
_proxiedInstanceFactory = proxiedInstanceFactory;
_container = container;
}
public void Intercept(IInvocation invocation)
{
var proxiedInstance = _proxiedInstanceFactory.Invoke(_container);
var types = invocation.Arguments.Select(arg => arg.GetType()).ToArray();
var method = typeof(T).GetMethod(invocation.Method.Name, types);
invocation.ReturnValue = method.Invoke(proxiedInstance, invocation.Arguments);
}
}
In Unity3, if you want to use
PerRequestLifetimeManager
You need to register UnityPerRequestHttpModule
I do this by using WebActivatorEx, the code is as below:
using System.Linq;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Mvc;
using MyNamespace;
[assembly: WebActivatorEx.PreApplicationStartMethod(typeof(UnityWebActivator), "Start")]
[assembly: WebActivatorEx.ApplicationShutdownMethod(typeof(UnityWebActivator), "Shutdown")]
namespace MyNamespace
{
/// <summary>Provides the bootstrapping for integrating Unity with ASP.NET MVC.</summary>
public static class UnityWebActivator
{
/// <summary>Integrates Unity when the application starts.</summary>
public static void Start()
{
var container = UnityConfig.GetConfiguredContainer();
FilterProviders.Providers.Remove(FilterProviders.Providers.OfType<FilterAttributeFilterProvider>().First());
FilterProviders.Providers.Add(new UnityFilterAttributeFilterProvider(container));
DependencyResolver.SetResolver(new UnityDependencyResolver(container));
// TODO: Uncomment if you want to use PerRequestLifetimeManager
Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure.DynamicModuleHelper.DynamicModuleUtility.RegisterModule(typeof(UnityPerRequestHttpModule));
}
/// <summary>Disposes the Unity container when the application is shut down.</summary>
public static void Shutdown()
{
var container = UnityConfig.GetConfiguredContainer();
container.Dispose();
}
}
}
PerRequestLifetimeManager and UnityPerRequestHttpModule classes are in Unity.Mvc package which has a dependency on ASP.NET MVC. If you don't want to have that dependency (e.g. you are using Web API) you will have to copy-paste them in to your app.
If you do that, don't forget the register the HttpModule.
Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure.DynamicModuleHelper.DynamicModuleUtility.RegisterModule(typeof(UnityPerRequestHttpModule));
Edit:
I'll include the classes here before CodePlex shuts down:
// Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Mvc.Properties;
using Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Utility;
namespace Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Mvc
{
/// <summary>
/// Implementation of the <see cref="IHttpModule"/> interface that provides support for using the
/// <see cref="PerRequestLifetimeManager"/> lifetime manager, and enables it to
/// dispose the instances after the HTTP request ends.
/// </summary>
public class UnityPerRequestHttpModule : IHttpModule
{
private static readonly object ModuleKey = new object();
internal static object GetValue(object lifetimeManagerKey)
{
var dict = GetDictionary(HttpContext.Current);
if (dict != null)
{
object obj = null;
if (dict.TryGetValue(lifetimeManagerKey, out obj))
{
return obj;
}
}
return null;
}
internal static void SetValue(object lifetimeManagerKey, object value)
{
var dict = GetDictionary(HttpContext.Current);
if (dict == null)
{
dict = new Dictionary<object, object>();
HttpContext.Current.Items[ModuleKey] = dict;
}
dict[lifetimeManagerKey] = value;
}
/// <summary>
/// Disposes the resources used by this module.
/// </summary>
public void Dispose()
{
}
/// <summary>
/// Initializes a module and prepares it to handle requests.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="context">An <see cref="HttpApplication"/> that provides access to the methods, properties,
/// and events common to all application objects within an ASP.NET application.</param>
[SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Design", "CA1062:Validate arguments of public methods", MessageId = "0", Justification = "Validated with Guard class")]
public void Init(HttpApplication context)
{
Guard.ArgumentNotNull(context, "context");
context.EndRequest += OnEndRequest;
}
private void OnEndRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var app = (HttpApplication)sender;
var dict = GetDictionary(app.Context);
if (dict != null)
{
foreach (var disposable in dict.Values.OfType<IDisposable>())
{
disposable.Dispose();
}
}
}
private static Dictionary<object, object> GetDictionary(HttpContext context)
{
if (context == null)
{
throw new InvalidOperationException(Resources.ErrorHttpContextNotAvailable);
}
var dict = (Dictionary<object, object>)context.Items[ModuleKey];
return dict;
}
}
}
// Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
using System;
using Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Mvc;
namespace Microsoft.Practices.Unity
{
/// <summary>
/// A <see cref="LifetimeManager"/> that holds onto the instance given to it during
/// the lifetime of a single HTTP request.
/// This lifetime manager enables you to create instances of registered types that behave like
/// singletons within the scope of an HTTP request.
/// See remarks for important usage information.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// <para>
/// Although the <see cref="PerRequestLifetimeManager"/> lifetime manager works correctly and can help
/// in working with stateful or thread-unsafe dependencies within the scope of an HTTP request, it is
/// generally not a good idea to use it when it can be avoided, as it can often lead to bad practices or
/// hard to find bugs in the end-user's application code when used incorrectly.
/// It is recommended that the dependencies you register are stateless and if there is a need to share
/// common state between several objects during the lifetime of an HTTP request, then you can
/// have a stateless service that explicitly stores and retrieves this state using the
/// <see cref="System.Web.HttpContext.Items"/> collection of the <see cref="System.Web.HttpContext.Current"/> object.
/// </para>
/// <para>
/// For the instance of the registered type to be disposed automatically when the HTTP request completes,
/// make sure to register the <see cref="UnityPerRequestHttpModule"/> with the web application.
/// To do this, invoke the following in the Unity bootstrapping class (typically UnityMvcActivator.cs):
/// <code>DynamicModuleUtility.RegisterModule(typeof(UnityPerRequestHttpModule));</code>
/// </para>
/// </remarks>
public class PerRequestLifetimeManager : LifetimeManager
{
private readonly object lifetimeKey = new object();
/// <summary>
/// Retrieves a value from the backing store associated with this lifetime policy.
/// </summary>
/// <returns>The desired object, or null if no such object is currently stored.</returns>
public override object GetValue()
{
return UnityPerRequestHttpModule.GetValue(this.lifetimeKey);
}
/// <summary>
/// Stores the given value into the backing store for retrieval later.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="newValue">The object being stored.</param>
public override void SetValue(object newValue)
{
UnityPerRequestHttpModule.SetValue(this.lifetimeKey, newValue);
}
/// <summary>
/// Removes the given object from the backing store.
/// </summary>
public override void RemoveValue()
{
var disposable = this.GetValue() as IDisposable;
if (disposable != null)
{
disposable.Dispose();
}
UnityPerRequestHttpModule.SetValue(this.lifetimeKey, null);
}
}
}