Castle Windsor - IoC registration for open generic interfaces?

Question

Does Castle Windsor permit registration of an open generic interface or do I need to register each possible typed instance separately?

Example - the below with types T,Z fails upon compilation unless I separately specify T, Z with strong types.

 container.Register(Component
      .For<IAdapterFactory<T,Z>>()
      .ImplementedBy<AdapterFactory<T,Z>>()
      .LifeStyle.PerWebRequest);

Solution

It's called open generic, and yes, Windsor does support that.

 container.Register(Component
             .For(typeof(IAdapterFactory<,>))
             .ImplementedBy(typeof(AdapterFactory<,>))
             .LifestylePerWebRequest());

Comments

[goldfinger]

One word: wow. Thank you! Just out of curiosity, wonder why Castle folks decided to deviate from more standard C# syntax - <T,Z> instead of <,>?

[Krzysztof Kozmic]

This is the only syntax that will work in this scenario and it has noting to do with Windsor. This just is how you obtain an instance of System.Type representing an open generic type.

[Richard Bailey]

Probable the fifth time this answer helped me out 🙄 - thank you