Dependency Injection

Tanka GraphQL servers is built on top of the ASP.NET Core and uses the builtin dependency injection services.

The recommended lifetime of a schema in Tanka is singleton as long as the schema does not change. This adds a challenge when using services which require scoped lifetime. Usually the scope is defined as HTTP request.

Dependency injection

Tanka GraphQL server starts an dependency injection scope at the beginning of execution and disposes it at the end. You can access this scope by using Use<T> extensions methods of IResolverContext.

Steps

1. Add service using the Add{Lifetime} etc. methods of the IServiceCollection
2. Use service in resolver using Use<T>.

1. Add service

Define service

    public class ResolverController
    {
        public ValueTask<IResolverResult> QueryLastName()
        {
            return ResolveSync.As("GraphQL");
        }
    }

Add service

        private void AddExecutionScopedService(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            services.AddScoped<ResolverController>();
        }

3. Use service in resolver

See Server for usage for below method.

        private Resolver UseService()
        {
            return context => context
                .Use<ResolverController>()
                .QueryLastName();
        }