Question

I have a typed factory interface as follows:

public interface ILogMessageFactory
{
    ILogMessage Create(LogMessageType logMessageType, String text);
}

and I am registering it all follows:

public void Install(IWindsorContainer container, IConfigurationStore store)
{
    container.AddFacility<TypedFactoryFacility>();

    container.Register(
        Component.For(typeof(ConsolePrompter)),
        Component.For<ILogger>().ImplementedBy<ConsoleLogger>().LifeStyle.Transient,
        Component.For<ILogMessageFactory>().AsFactory(),
        Component.For<ILogMessage>().ImplementedBy<LogMessage>().LifeStyle.Transient
        );
}

The problem is that I want to implement the ILogMessageFactory.Create method myself, to set a few things before I return.

I’ve tried the obvious naïve solution without any success:

 Component.For<ILogMessageFactory>().ImplementedBy<LogMessageFactory>().AsFactory()

Am I approaching this wrong? Should I just keep all initialization in the constructor of the given object?

Answer 1

use ITypedFactoryComponentSelector if this is something that really belongs to the factory. Alternatively use .OnCreate() on the component the factory resolves