How to manage Castle Windsor dependencies in a nuget library

Question

I have a set of WebApi, MVC and windows service apps and a logging library (based on nLog). The logging library is packaged as a nuget (if that matters). All the clients and the logging library use Castle Windsor. The logging library has a complex set of dependencies and currently in all the projects that use it I pasted a big block of registrations.

Is there a way to make the library use a set of default dependencies (registered automatically inside it) and change those in the clients only if they need a non-default option?

Ufuk Hacıoğulları Ufuk Hacıoğulları · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-21T12:50:32

You can create an installer for managing the dependencies:

public class RepositoriesInstaller : IWindsorInstaller
{
   public void Install(IWindsorContainer container, IConfigurationStore store)
   {
      //container.Register();
   }
}

Then the clients can install it in their container like this:

container.Install(new RepositoriesInstaller());

You can either include this installer in your library (that would mean your library would be dependent upon Castle Windsor) or create another package (MyLib.CastleWindsor etc) that contains the installer.

How to manage Castle Windsor dependencies in a nuget library

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