Implementation of Dependency Injection in Web API

Introduction

In this article I will show you a simple implementation of Dependency Injection in the Web API. Here we create an application that implements Dependency Injection.

Step 1

Create a Web API application.

• Start Visual Studio 2012.
• From the start window Select "Installed" -> "Visual C#" -> "Web".
• Select "ASP.NET MVC4 Web Application" and click on the "Ok" button.

• From the "MVC4 Project" window select "Web API".

• Click on the "OK" button.

Step 2

Create Two Model classes first is "ResponseModel" and another as "ResultModel".

• In the "Solution Explorer".
• Right-click on the Model Folder.
• Select "Add" -> "Class".
• Select "Installed" -> "Visual C#" and select "Class".

Add the following code in the "ResponseModel.cs".

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

namespace DepeninjecAPI.Models

{

    public class ResponseModel

    {

        public int ID { get; set; }

        public DateTime Date { get; set; }

    }

}

Add the following code in "ResultModel.cs" class.

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

 

namespace DepeninjecAPI.Models

{

    public class ResultModel<T>

    {

        public int Full_count { get; set; }

        public int Pagecount { get; set; }

        public IEnumerable<T> Rslt { get; set; }

    }

}

Step 3

Add a new Folder to the project.

• In the "Solution Explorer".
• Right-click on the Project.
• Select "Add" -> "New Folder"and change the name of it to "Collect".

Add a new interface in this folder.

• Right-click on the "Collect" folder.
• Select "Add" -> "New Items".
• Select "installed" -> "Visual C#" and select "Interface".

Add the following code in this interface:

using DepeninjecAPI.Models;

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

 

namespace DepeninjecAPI.Collect

{

    public interface IRedingCollect

    {

        void Save(ResponseModel read);

        ResultModel<ResponseModel> Get();

        ResultModel<ResponseModel> Get(int No_page);

    }

    public class ReadingCollect :IRedingCollect

    {

        private readonly IList<ResponseModel> intercollect = new List<ResponseModel>();

        public const int PageSize = 5;

       public void Save(ResponseModel read)

        {

            intercollect.Add(new ResponseModel { ID = read.ID, Date = read.Date });

 

        }

        public ResultModel<ResponseModel> Get()

        {

          return this.Get(1);

        }

        public ResultModel<ResponseModel> Get(int No_page)

        {

            var Gap_No = (No_page - 1) * PageSize;

            return new ResultModel<ResponseModel>

            {

                Full_count = intercollect.Count(),

                Pagecount = No_page,

                Rslt = intercollect.Skip(Gap_No).Take(PageSize)

            };

        }

    }

}

Step 4

Create a Controller "ResponseController".

• In the "Solution Explorer".
• Right-click on the Controller folder.
• Select "Add" -> "Controller".

• Click on the "Add" button.

Add the following code:

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Net;

using System.Net.Http;

using System.Web.Http;

using DepeninjecAPI.Models;

using DepeninjecAPI.Collect;

namespace DepeninjecAPI.Controllers

{

    public class ResponseController : ApiController;'

    {

                private readonly IRedingCollect collect;

               public ResponseController(IRedingCollect col)

        {

            collect = col;

        }

        public void Post(ResponseModel read)

        {

            if(read==null) throw new HttpResponseException(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest);

            collect.Save(read);

        }

        public ResultModel<ResponseModel> Get()

        {

            return Get(1);

        }

        public ResultModel<ResponseModel> Get(int No_page)

        {

            return collect.Get(No_page);

        }

    }

}

 

Step 5

Now we add a class in the "App_start" folder:

• In the "Solution Explorer"

• Right-click on the "App_Start" folder.

• Select "Add" -> "Class".

Add the following code:

using DepeninjecAPI.Collect;

using DepeninjecAPI.Controllers;

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.Http.Dependencies;

 

namespace DepeninjecAPI.App_Start

{

    public class SolveController:IDependencyResolver

    {

        private static readonly IRedingCollect readcollect = new ReadingCollect();

        public object GetService(Type type)

        {

            return type == typeof(ResponseController) ? new ResponseController(readcollect) : null;

        }

        public IEnumerable<object> GetServices(Type type)

        {

            return new List<object>();

        }

        public IDependencyScope BeginScope()

        {

           return this;

        }

        public void Dispose()

        {

        }

    }

}

In the "WebApi.config" file add the following line of code:

config.DependencyResolver = new SolveController();

 

Step 6

Execute the application and change the URL to "http://localhost:43200/api/Response".Then the output will be as in the following: