Fluent Spring configuration

[swalters]

I thought I saw reference to a spring extension a few months ago to add fluent configuration of the spring container. But now I can only find a small project on Google Code that doesn't look like it's backed by the spring contributors.

Is this something that is on the immediate roadmap? I just spent the better part of a day wading through XML changes as part of a big project upgrade and I'm really wishing we had this so the compiler would do the hard work for me.

I read Mark's post - http://blog.springsource.com/2008/01...configuration/ - and had the impression that this was one of the more hotter areas of development. Is anyone working on this?

Thanks,

-Shane

[.ben]

I'm very intrested. If one has seen the ease of Fluent Nhibernate, you can only hope for this to come to Spring.Net configuration.

[Erich Eichinger]

Hi,

be assured that we are aware of this and treat SharpConfig as top-prio. Nevertheless we are a bit short of time atm so any helping hand is greatly appreciated!

cheers,
Erich

[swalters]

Hi Erich,

Will this be a Spring Extensions project? Has any work been done that I can review?

Thanks,

-Shane

[.ben]

*Bump*

Any news on this?

[BrunoCal]

Hi,
I've implemented a small set of classes to allow us to register object definitions using a fluent interface.


It works really well in our scenarios, and the usage looks something like:

ContextRegistry.GetContext()
.Fluently()
.IncludeObjectsFromAssemblyOf<SomeObjectRepository >()
.Where(t => t.Namespace != "Some.Namespace")
.NameAs(t => t.Name)
.AsSingletonWhen(t => t is ISomeInterface)
.AddType<Repository<SomeObject2>>()
.Configure();

The idea behind is to use the autowiring but we have the posibility of use XML as well because the new generic context (with these definitions) will be a child of the current context.

The implementation is pretty simple.

What do you guys think? any input will be really appreciated.

Thanks
Bruno

[Erich Eichinger]

Hi,

nice job, looks good! I had a very interesting pair programming session with Fabio Maulo from NHibernate right yesterday, who implemented his support for NHibernate Conversation per Business Transaction with Spring.NET. He came up with a very similar approach and plans to further refine it. You guys probably want to have a chat ;-).

Frankly SharpConfig as outlined by Mark Pollack in his blog seems more appealing to me, as the approach resulsts in a much more dense configuration, even less verbose than the fluent approach. Unfortunately this also means more work to implement. But asfaik is Mark already working on it. I will point him to this thread as he might want to comment himself on this.

cheers,
Erich

[BrunoCal]

Hi,
Thanks Erich, I will try to speak with Fabio.
Also if you need a hand implementing some programatic interface let me know, I would like to colaborate with the proyect.
Thanks
Bruno

[aedenj]

While I wouldn't be good for leading the vision of this, once there is a stable direction I'd be more than willing to put in effort.

Cheers,
Aeden

[aedenj]

Just curious what the direction is on this because I'd be interested in helping out.

Cheers,
Aeden