Category: di

DIForFunctions–improving generating of a constructor for a existing class with Roslyn

It is not so difficult to generate a new constructor for a existing class with Roslyn – however , there are some difficulties:

1. The original class must be declared “partial” – you cannot declare the second as partial if the first was not

2. The new class must be in the same namespace ( or without namespace) as the original

3. The constructor must have the types declared with full names / or get the usings from the existing class ( or , maybe , put the developer to use global usings: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csharp-10

For 1 the dotnet compiler shows an error – but you can add yours too:

private static bool HasPartial(ClassDeclarationSyntax cds)
         {
             if (cds.Modifiers.Count < 1)
                 return false;
             foreach(var modif in cds.Modifiers)
             {
                 if (modif.Text == “partial”)
                     return true;
             }
             return false;
         }

if (!HasPartial(cds))
                 {
                     var dd = new DiagnosticDescriptor(DiagnosticId, Title, “Please add partial to ” + cds.Identifier.Text, Category, DiagnosticSeverity.Error, isEnabledByDefault: true, description: “Please add partial to ” + cds.Identifier.Text);
                     Location? loc = cds.GetLocation();
                     var dg = Diagnostic.Create(dd, loc);
                     context.ReportDiagnostic(dg);
                     return;
                 }

For 2 is somehow more difficult

private static Tuple<string,string> NameAndNameSpace(ClassDeclarationSyntax c)
         {
             var nameClass = c.Identifier.Text;
             var p = c.Parent;
             var namespaceClass = “”;
             while (true)
             {
                 if (p is BaseNamespaceDeclarationSyntax bnsds)
                 {
                     namespaceClass = bnsds.Name.ToFullString();
                     break;
                 }
                 p = p?.Parent;
                 if (p == null)
                     break;
             }
             return Tuple.Create(nameClass, namespaceClass);
         }

And verify if the namespace is null – if it is, do NOT generate namespace declaration

For 3 it is more complicated

private static string? FullTypeVar(SemanticModel? sem,TypeSyntax? ts)
         {
             if (sem == null)
                 return null;
             if (ts is null)
                 return null;
             var typeInfo = sem.GetTypeInfo(ts);
             if (typeInfo.Type is null)
                 return null;

            var theType = ((INamedTypeSymbol)typeInfo.Type);

            var typeField = theType?.ToDisplayString();
             return typeField;
         }

And that it is!

DIForFunctions – Improving constructor–part 5

I have received a suggestion : what if we just put into constructor what we need , and everything else ( such as ILogger ) are into fields ?

The Roslyn Source Code Generator will generate a constructor that calls the this constructor and will assign fields needed.

Let’s give an example : We wrote

public partial class TestDIFunctionAdvWithConstructor2Args
    {
        [RSCG_FunctionsWithDI_Base.FromServices]
        private TestDI1 NewTestDI1;

       public TestDI2 NewTestDI2 { get; set; }

       public readonly TestDI3 myTestDI3;

       private TestDIFunctionAdvWithConstructor2Args(TestDI3 test, TestDI2 a)
        {
            myTestDI3 = test;
            NewTestDI2 = a;
        }

   }

and the generator will generate a new constructor with the required field

public partial class TestDIFunctionAdvWithConstructor2Args
{
public TestDIFunctionAdvWithConstructor2Args
(TestDI3 test, TestDI2 a, TestDI1 _NewTestDI1) : this (test,a)
{
this.NewTestDI1 = _NewTestDI1;
}//end constructor

}//class

The code is non trivial – to find if a constructor exists, take his fields, generate new constructor with all fields.

But , as anything in IT , it is doable .

July 11, 2022
No Comments
Andrei Ignat
.NET Core, di, DIFunction, projects, roslyn

DIForFunctions–what it does- part 4

You can find a demo at https://github.com/ignatandrei/FunctionsDI/tree/main/src/FunctionsWithDI – see TestCOnsoleAPP. But let’s write here also

Generate (constructor) and functions calls similar with ASP.NET Core WebAPI ( [FromServices] will be provided by DI ) Also, verifies for null .

Usage

Reference into the csproj

<ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="RSCG_FunctionsWithDI" Version="2022.6.19.1605" ReferenceOutputAssembly="false" OutputItemType="Analyzer" />
    <PackageReference Include="RSCG_FunctionsWithDI_Base" Version="2022.6.19.1605" />
</ItemGroup>

Then for every class you can write [FromServices]

using RSCG_FunctionsWithDI_Base;
//namespace if necessary
public partial class TestDIFunction
{
    public bool TestMyFunc1([FromServices] TestDI1 t1, [FromServices] TestDI2 t2, int x, int y)
    {
        return true;
    }
    //more functions
}

generates the constructor with needed details

public partial class TestDIFunction
{ 
private TestDI1 _TestDI1;
private TestDI2 _TestDI2;
public TestDIFunction  (TestDI1 _TestDI1,TestDI2 _TestDI2) //constructor generated with needed DI
 { 
this._TestDI1=_TestDI1;
this._TestDI2=_TestDI2;

 } //end constructor 

//making call to TestMyFunc1
public bool TestMyFunc1(int  x,int  y){ 
var t1 = this._TestDI1  ;
if(t1 == null) throw new ArgumentException(" service TestDI1  is null in TestDIFunction ");
var t2 = this._TestDI2  ;
if(t2 == null) throw new ArgumentException(" service TestDI2  is null in TestDIFunction ");
return  TestMyFunc1(t1,t2,x,y);
}

so you can call

var test=serviceProvider.GetService<TestDIFunction>();
Console.WriteLine(test.TestMyFunc1(10,3)); // calling without the [FromServices] arguments

DIForFunctions–NuGet- part3

The important part now is to make public – that means NuGet and documentation, The NuGet is pretty simple – with

dotnet pack

and with GitHub Actions – in order to do automatically every time I modify the main. For now, this is the action

name: .NET
on:
push:
    branches: [ “main” ]
pull_request:
    branches: [ “main” ]
jobs:
build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    – uses: actions/checkout@v3
    – name: Setup .NET
      uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v2
      with:
        dotnet-version: 6.0.x
    – name: Restore dependencies
      run: |
        cd src
        cd FunctionsWithDI
        dotnet tool restore
        dotnet pwsh readme.ps1
        dotnet restore
    – name: Build
      run: |
        cd src
        cd FunctionsWithDI
        dotnet build –no-restore
    – name: TestConsoleProject
run: |
        cd src
        cd FunctionsWithDI
        cd TestConsoleApp
        dotnet run –no-build
    – name: create package
if: ${{ github.ref == ‘refs/heads/main’ }}
run: |
        cd src
        cd FunctionsWithDI
        echo ‘now aop’
        #dotnet pwsh AOPMethod.ps1
        #dotnet clean
        #dotnet build
        echo ‘now pack’
        dotnet pack RSCG_FunctionsWithDI/RSCG_FunctionsWithDI.csproj                        -o nugetPackages –include-symbols –include-source
        dotnet pack RSCG_FunctionsWithDI_Base/RSCG_FunctionsWithDI_Base.csproj              -o nugetPackages –include-symbols –include-source
    – name: ‘Upload nuget’
      if: ${{ github.ref == ‘refs/heads/main’ }}
      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
      with:
        name: RSCG_FunctionsWithDI_${{github.run_number}}
        path: src/FunctionsWithDI/nugetPackages
        retention-days: 1

that generates at every run the packages

You will find the sources at https://github.com/ignatandrei/functionsdi and the nuget at https://www.nuget.org/packages/RSCG_FunctionsWithDI

DI for Functions–idea – part 1

Looking at ASP.NET Core , there is a wonderful feature that gives you thinking : you can put in any action for a controller FromServices argument and the framework will complete from, well, services: :

public ActionResult Test([FromServices] MyFunction

What if you can do the same with any function from any class ?

It will be good, but … how ? ASP.NET Core instantiate himself the functions, but I cannot do this.

I can generate with Roslyn a function that takes not DI arguments . For example , from

public bool TestMyFunc1([FromServices] TestDI1 t1, [FromServices] TestDI2 t2, int x, int y)

Roslyn can generate this

public bool TestMyFunc1(int  x,int  y)

And call the previous function – but HOW we can retrieve the arguments ?

As I see , there are 2 options:

1. Generate a constructor that have as a parameter the ServiceProvider and find the services from ServiceProvider

2. Generate a constructor that have the DI arguments and assign them as fields .

Now go to work!

Dependency injection choice

For a personal pet project I have needed a DI framework . It relates to WebApi – I need to switch the provider for web api between a console and web – mostly authentication / logging different.

Some years ago was only StructureMap – but now there are a lot.

So I started to investigate to choose between the DI frameworks.

What I have wanted:

1. open license to use in a project – and source code too – to can upgrade.

2. Updated to the last .NET framework ( so , for .NET 10.0 , I will not be left to upgrade myself the source code – I am lazy too)

3. Speed

4. Last but not least: easy to use – have some simple example to start me with

The first link found was:

http://fukyo-it.blogspot.ro/2012/10/comparing-net-di-ioc-frameworks.html – it helps about license . Recomends Autofac. I was not very sure about.

Let’s see who have updated the source code to .NET 4.5 . I started looking at github and google code – and , yes, all are updating the source to the latest framework.

For speed I consider relevant http://www.palmmedia.de/Blog/2011/8/30/ioc-container-benchmark-performance-comparison – if you look down , latest update was(quoting):

“17.11.2013: Added Grace. Updated several containers.”

Recommends Simple Injector . And from his page seems simple to use.

So my choice is Simple Injector . If you use a DI, please say in the comments what DI and why.