Dependency Injection

While you're building your classes for automatic discovery, many of these classes will require access to the core's internal services.

If your class depends on one of our services, all you have to do is add it to your constructor and an instance will be passed in that you can work with.

The following services are available for insertion into your constructors:

ILogManager

Create your own named logger. Log entries will appear in the application log file and will be prefixed with the name of the logger for ease of reading.

IServerApplicationPaths

Contains a list of various application data paths

IServerConfigurationManager

Read and write server configuration data (and the above app paths)

IJsonSerializer

Get access to the core's json serializer.

IXmlSerializer

Get access to the core's xml serializer.

ITaskManager

Queue, execute and cancel scheduled tasks

ILibraryManager

Get information about the media library in a user-less fashion

IUserManager

Get information about each user as well as their customized media libraries

ILocalizationManager

Get lists of countries, localized display strings, parental ratings, etc.

IBlurayExaminer

Get information about bluray folder structures

IIsoManager

Mounts and unmounts iso files

INetworkManager

Get information about the user's computer network

IZipClient

Unzip files and streams

IDtoService

Create dto's from domain objects

INotificationsRepository

Add entries to a user's notifications inbox