Question

I have IRFConfigurationSection which is instanced like this:

(RFConfigurationSection)ConfigurationManager.GetSection("userSettings/ABZReportFactoryServer");

I want to put this call into Windsor castle and make this class singleton. So when I need to instance this RFConfigurationSection class, I’ll like to do it this way.

IWindsorContainer container = new WindsorContainer(new XmlInterpreter());
configSection = container.Resolve<IRFConfigurationSection>();

Is it possible to somehow configure Windsor Castle config to do this?

Answer 1

Would a better approach to use a factory, e.g:

public interface IConfigurationFactory<out TConfigurationSection>
{
    TConfigurationSection GetConfiguration();
}

public class RFConfigurationFactory : IConfigurationFactory<IRFConfigurationSection>
{
    public IRFConfigurationSection GetConfiguration()
    {
        return ConfigurationManager.GetSection("userSettings/ABZReportFactoryServer") as RFConfigurationSection;
    }
}

That way, you can add the factory to the container, and resolve an instance of that:

var configFactory = container.Resolve<IConfigurationFactory<IRFConfigurationSection>>();
var config = configFactory.GetConfiguration();