Advanced - Factory-based middleware with third-party container

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Note The sample app uses Simple Injector purely for demonstration purposes. Use of Simple Injector isn't an endorsement. Middleware activation approaches described in the Simple Injector documentation and GitHub issues are recommended by the maintainers of Simple Injector. For more information, see the Simple Injector documentation and Simple Injector GitHub repository.

IMiddlewareFactory

public class SimpleInjectorMiddlewareFactory : IMiddlewareFactory
{
    private readonly Container _container;

    public SimpleInjectorMiddlewareFactory(Container container)
    {
        _container = container;
    }

    public IMiddleware Create(Type middlewareType)
    {
        return _container.GetInstance(middlewareType) as IMiddleware;
    }

    public void Release(IMiddleware middleware)
    {
        // The container is responsible for releasing resources.
    }
}

IMiddleware

public class SimpleInjectorActivatedMiddleware : IMiddleware
{
    private readonly AppDbContext _db;

    public SimpleInjectorActivatedMiddleware(AppDbContext db)
    {
        _db = db;
    }

    public async Task InvokeAsync(HttpContext context, RequestDelegate next)
    {
        var keyValue = context.Request.Query["key"];

        if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(keyValue))
        {
            _db.Add(new Request()
                {
                    DT = DateTime.UtcNow, 
                    MiddlewareActivation = "SimpleInjectorActivatedMiddleware", 
                    Value = keyValue
                });

            await _db.SaveChangesAsync();
        }

        await next(context);
    }
}

public static class MiddlewareExtensions
{
    public static IApplicationBuilder UseSimpleInjectorActivatedMiddleware(
        this IApplicationBuilder builder)
    {
        return builder.UseMiddleware<SimpleInjectorActivatedMiddleware>();
    }
}

• Set up the Simple Injector container.

• Register the factory and middleware.

• Make the app's database context available from the Simple Injector container.

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    services.AddRazorPages();

    // Replace the default middleware factory with the 
    // SimpleInjectorMiddlewareFactory.
    services.AddTransient<IMiddlewareFactory>(_ =>
    {
        return new SimpleInjectorMiddlewareFactory(_container);
    });

    // Wrap ASP.NET Core requests in a Simple Injector execution 
    // context.
    services.UseSimpleInjectorAspNetRequestScoping(_container);

    // Provide the database context from the Simple 
    // Injector container whenever it's requested from 
    // the default service container.
    services.AddScoped<AppDbContext>(provider => 
        _container.GetInstance<AppDbContext>());

    _container.Options.DefaultScopedLifestyle = new AsyncScopedLifestyle();

    _container.Register<AppDbContext>(() => 
    {
        var optionsBuilder = new DbContextOptionsBuilder<DbContext>();
        optionsBuilder.UseInMemoryDatabase("InMemoryDb");
        return new AppDbContext(optionsBuilder.Options);
    }, Lifestyle.Scoped);

    _container.Register<SimpleInjectorActivatedMiddleware>();

    _container.Verify();
}

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IWebHostEnvironment env)
{
    if (env.IsDevelopment())
    {
        app.UseDeveloperExceptionPage();
    }
    else
    {
        app.UseExceptionHandler("/Error");
    }

    app.UseSimpleInjectorActivatedMiddleware();

    app.UseStaticFiles();
    app.UseRouting();

    app.UseEndpoints(endpoints =>
    {
        endpoints.MapRazorPages();
    });
}

Additional resources

• Middleware

• Factory-based middleware activation

• Simple Injector GitHub repository

• Simple Injector documentation

Ref: Middleware activation with a third-party container in ASP.NET Core