I want to give parameters when injecting generic types. Is this possible?

My generic type definition:

public interface IApiClient<T> where T : class
{
    
}

public class ApiClient<T> : IApiClient<T> where T : class
{
    public ApiClient(string baseAddress = "", string endpoint = "")
    {
        //some codes
    }
}

My implementation is:

services.AddSingleton(typeof(IApiClient<>), typeof(ApiClient<>));

How do I give baseAddress and endpoint in this usage?

Thanks.

CodePudding user response：

You can make separate class for the constructor parameters.

For example based on your code:

public class ApiClientSettings 
{
    public string BaseAddress { get; set; }
    public string Endpoint { get; set; }
}

Create an instance of the ApiClientSettings (or even you can simply get values from appsettings.json file). Then register ApiClientSettings in the container.

var apiClientSettings = new ApiClientSettings
{
    BaseAddress = "address",
    Endpoint = "endpoint"
};
services.AddSingleton(apiClientSettings);

Inject settings class to your ApiClient

public class ApiClient<T> : IApiClient<T> where T : class
{
    public ApiClient(ApiClientSettings settings)
    {
        //some codes
    }
}