Adding Dependency Injection support for Service Fabric Stateless API applications

Turns out that it's pretty easy (for Stateless Services anyway).

In your Package Manager Console:

Install-Package Autofac.WebApi2 -Version 4.0.1

In your Startup.cs file (assuming you're using the Visual Studio Project templates):

Startup.cs:

public static void ConfigureApp(IAppBuilder appBuilder)
{
// Configure Web API for self-host.
HttpConfiguration config = new HttpConfiguration();

config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "DefaultApi",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
);

var containerBuilder = new ContainerBuilder();

containerBuilder.RegisterModule<MyApiModule>();

config.DependencyResolver = new AutofacWebApiDependencyResolver(containerBuilder.Build());

appBuilder.UseWebApi(config);
}

And, assuming you've built an Autofac Module, it should look something vaguely like this:

public class PlayDatesApiModule : Autofac.Module

{

protected override void Load(ContainerBuilder builder)

{

base.Load(builder);

builder.RegisterType<MyDependencyConcreteType>().As<IMyDependency>();

builder.RegisterType<ValuesController>();

}

}