Asp.Net MVC 5 Custom Action Filter With StructureMap

Question

i am facing issue in asp.net mvc custom acitonfilte using structuremap in my "LogAttribute" class i have setter dependency injection which is coming null when executing the "OnActionExecuted" Method of my customfilterclass which is "LogAttribute"

my LogAttribute Class code is

    public class LogAttribute : ActionFilterAttribute
{
    public ApplicationDbContext Context { get; set; }
    public string Description { get; set; }
    public LogAttribute(string description)
    {
        Description = description;
    }

    public override void OnActionExecuted(ActionExecutedContext filterContext)
    {
        var userId = filterContext.HttpContext.User.Identity.GetUserId();
        var user = Context.Users.Find(userId); **i am getting error here the Context is coming null here** 
        Context.Logs.Add(new Log(user, filterContext.ActionDescriptor.ActionName,
                                filterContext.ActionDescriptor.ControllerDescriptor.ControllerName,
                                Description
                                )
                        );
        Context.SaveChanges();
    }
}

i creat another class from wheren i am passing value to the setter dependency property

    public class StructureMapFilterProvider : FilterAttributeFilterProvider 
{
    private readonly Func<IContainer> _container;
    public StructureMapFilterProvider(Func<IContainer> container)
    {
        _container = container;
    }

    public override IEnumerable<Filter> GetFilters(ControllerContext controllerContext, ActionDescriptor actionDescriptor)
    {
        var filters = base.GetFilters(controllerContext, actionDescriptor);
        var container = _container();
        foreach (var filter in filters)
        {
            container.BuildUp(filter.Instance);
            yield return filter;
        }
    }
}

my dependency resolver class code is

public class StructureMapDependencyResolver : IDependencyResolver
{
    private readonly Func<IContainer> _containerFactory;
    public StructureMapDependencyResolver(Func<IContainer> containerFactory)
    {
        _containerFactory = containerFactory;
    }
    public object GetService(Type serviceType)
    {
        if (serviceType == null)
        {
            return null;
        }
        var container = _containerFactory();

        return serviceType.IsAbstract || serviceType.IsInterface
            ? container.TryGetInstance(serviceType)
            : container.GetInstance(serviceType);
    }

    public IEnumerable<object> GetServices(Type serviceType)
    {
        return _containerFactory().GetAllInstances(serviceType).Cast<object>();
    }
}

and my global.ascx code is

public class MvcApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication
{

    public IContainer Container
    {
        get
        {
            return (IContainer)HttpContext.Current.Items["_Container"];
        }
        set
        {
            HttpContext.Current.Items["_Container"] = value;
        }
    }

    protected void Application_Start()
    {
        AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();
        FilterConfig.RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters);
        RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
        BundleConfig.RegisterBundles(BundleTable.Bundles);
        DependencyResolver.SetResolver(new StructureMapDependencyResolver(() => Container ?? ObjectFactory.Container));

        ObjectFactory.Configure(cfg =>
           {
               cfg.Scan(Scan =>
               {
                   Scan.TheCallingAssembly();
                   Scan.WithDefaultConventions();
                   Scan.With(new ControllerConfiguration());
               });
               cfg.For<IFilterProvider>().Use(new StructureMapFilterProvider(() => Container ?? ObjectFactory.Container));
               cfg.For<IUserStore<ApplicationUser>>()
                  .Use<UserStore<ApplicationUser>>();
               cfg.For<DbContext>()
                  .Use(() => new ApplicationDbContext());
               cfg.SetAllProperties(x =>
                x.Matching(p =>
                     p.DeclaringType.CanBeCastTo(typeof(ActionFilterAttribute)) &&
                     p.DeclaringType.Namespace.StartsWith("TestingSturctureMap") &&
                     p.PropertyType.IsPrimitive &&
                     p.PropertyType != typeof(string)));

           });
    }

    public void Application_BeginRequest()
    {
        Container = ObjectFactory.Container.GetNestedContainer();
    }

    public void Application_EndRequest()
    {
        Container.Dispose();
        Container = null;
    }
}

Answer 1

I installed structuremap and StructureMap.MVC5 NuGet packages.
This added DependencyResolution folder and a StructuremapMvc.cs to App_Start folder.
I then created Filters folder and added an attribute, an action filter and a filter provider classes to it:

My attribute class - LogActionsAttribute - is the easiest. It is just an attribute without any references to any actions:

[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Class | AttributeTargets.Method, AllowMultiple = false)]
public class LogActionsAttribute : System.Attribute
{
}

Usage on a Controller:

[LogActions]
public class HomeController : System.Web.Mvc.Controller
{
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        return View();
    }
}

Now I needed to add an action filter that would look for this attribute and do something. In my case, log the incoming parameters and execution result. ILog is a custom interface with those 2 methods that are used by this filter.

ControllerLoggerFilter class:

public class ControllerLoggerFilter : IActionFilter
{
    private readonly ILog _log;
    private string _request;

    public ControllerLoggerFilter(ILog log)
    {
        _log = log;
    }

    public void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
    {
        if (ApplyBehavior(filterContext))
        {
            ActionExecuting(filterContext);
        }
    }

    public void OnActionExecuted(ActionExecutedContext filterContext)
    {
        if (ApplyBehavior(filterContext))
        {
            ActionExecuted(filterContext);
        }
    }

    private void ActionExecuting(ControllerContext c)
    {
        if (c == null || c.HttpContext == null)
            return;

        _log.LogInput(c.HttpContext.Request);
        _request = c.HttpContext.Request;
    }

    private void ActionExecuted(ControllerContext c)
    {
        if (c.HttpContext.Response == null)
            return;

        _log.LogOutput(_request, c.HttpContext.Response);
    }

    private static bool ApplyBehavior(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
    {
        return
            filterContext.ActionDescriptor.ControllerDescriptor
.GetCustomAttributes(typeof (LogActionsAttribute),
                false).Any();
    }

    private static bool ApplyBehavior(ActionExecutedContext filterContext)
    {
        return
            filterContext.ActionDescriptor.ControllerDescriptor
.GetCustomAttributes(typeof (LogActionsAttribute),
                false).Any();
    }
}

I now had to tell MVC that this filter needed to be in the pipeline. Since it is built by structuremap container, I needed a custom IFilterProvider:

public class MvcInjectableFilterProvider : IFilterProvider
{
    private readonly IEnumerable<Filter> _list;

    public MvcInjectableFilterProvider(IContainer container)
    {
        _list = GetContainerFilters(container);
    }

    public IEnumerable<Filter> GetFilters(ControllerContext controllerContext, ActionDescriptor actionDescriptor)
    {
        return _list;
    }

    private static IEnumerable<Filter> GetContainerFilters(IContainer container)
    {
        return
            container.GetAllInstances<IActionFilter>()
                .Select(instance => new Filter(instance, FilterScope.Action, null));
    }
}

Last thing to do: register my classes in my IoC.cs.
This is the only place I had to modify in the files that were created when I installed NuGet packages.

public static class IoC {
    public static IContainer Initialize() {
        return new Container(c =>
        {
            c.AddRegistry<DefaultRegistry>();
            // added these lines:
            c.For<ILog>().Use<Log>();
            c.For<IActionFilter>().Use<ControllerLoggerFilter>();
            c.For<IFilterProvider>().Use<MvcInjectableFilterProvider>();
        });
    }
}

Sources:
Mark Seemann (and whole bunch other places)
Javier G. Lozano
eric.sowell
K. Scott Allen

Answer 2

Dear friends i solve my question it was just [SetterProperty] missing from the setter property in my LogAttribute Class

    public class LogAttribute : ActionFilterAttribute
{
    [SetterProperty]
    public ApplicationDbContext Context { get; set; }
    public string Description { get; set; }
    public LogAttribute(string description)
    {
        Description = description;
    }

    public override void OnActionExecuted(ActionExecutedContext filterContext)
    {
        var userId = filterContext.HttpContext.User.Identity.GetUserId();
        var user = Context.Users.Find(userId);
        Context.Logs.Add(new Log(user, filterContext.ActionDescriptor.ActionName,
                                filterContext.ActionDescriptor.ControllerDescriptor.ControllerName,
                                Description
                                )
                        );
        Context.SaveChanges();
    }
}

now its working :)