Windsor Castle BuildUp

Question

Does Castle Windsor have the Unity BuildUp () equivalent, thanks to which you can decorate class properties with attributes and pass the container values ​​to an existing instance of the object?

eg. In Unity:

Statistics existingInstance = new Statistics();  
container.BuildUp(existingInstance)

class Statistics  
{  
  [Dependency]  
  public ICalculator Calculator { get; set; }  

Answer 1

Looks like the answer is that Castle Windsor cannot inject dependencies into an existing instance of the object either by attributes or by the injection method:

Question of duplication

Answer 2

However, you can program this function yourself. For example, here is an ASP.NET MVC FilterAttributeFilterProvider used to insert proprties into attribute action filters.

  public class AttributeFilterProvider : FilterAttributeFilterProvider
  {
    public AttributeFilterProvider(IKernel kernel)
    {
      _kernel = kernel;
    }

    private readonly IKernel _kernel;

    protected override IEnumerable<FilterAttribute> GetControllerAttributes(ControllerContext controllerContext, ActionDescriptor actionDescriptor)
    {
      var attributes = base.GetControllerAttributes(controllerContext, actionDescriptor);
      BuildUpAttributeDependancies(attributes);
      return attributes;
    }

    protected override IEnumerable<FilterAttribute> GetActionAttributes(ControllerContext controllerContext, ActionDescriptor actionDescriptor)
    {
      var attributes = base.GetActionAttributes(controllerContext, actionDescriptor);
      BuildUpAttributeDependancies(attributes);
      return attributes;
    }

    private void BuildUpAttributeDependancies(IEnumerable<FilterAttribute> attributes)
    {
      foreach (var attribute in attributes)
      {
        var propInfos = attribute.GetType().GetProperties().Where(x => x.GetValue(attribute) == null).AsEnumerable();
        foreach (var pi in propInfos)
        {
          if (_kernel.HasComponent(pi.PropertyType))
          {
            var service = _kernel.Resolve(pi.PropertyType);
            pi.SetValue(attribute, service);
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }

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FilterAttributeFilterProvider () global.asax, Castle Windsors DI MVC. , global.asax Castle Windsor ( ) ActionFilter ( ):

public class MvcApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication
{
  private static IWindsorContainer _container;

  private static void BootstrapContainer()
  {
    _container = new WindsorContainer()
        .Install(FromAssembly.This());

    var controllerFactory = new ControllerFactory(_container.Kernel);
    ControllerBuilder.Current.SetControllerFactory(controllerFactory);
  }

  private static void BootstrapFilters()
  {
    var oldProvider = FilterProviders.Providers.Single(f => f is FilterAttributeFilterProvider);
    FilterProviders.Providers.Remove(oldProvider);

    var provider = new AttributeFilterProvider(_container.Kernel);
    FilterProviders.Providers.Add(provider);
  }

  protected void Application_Start()
  {
    AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();

    WebApiConfig.Register(GlobalConfiguration.Configuration);
    FilterConfig.RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters);
    RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
    BundleConfig.RegisterBundles(BundleTable.Bundles);

    BootstrapContainer();
    BootstrapFilters();
  }
}