Decompiling service locator pattern

[Charlie]

Hi,

I decompiled an assembly that uses a service locator pattern. The results were somewhat lacking and I wonder if this is a consequence of the SL pattern being loosely coupled?

So for example

I get :

    [ServiceConsumer]
    internal static class ServiceLocator
    {
        [ServiceDependency]
        public static IService1 Service1;

        [ServiceDependency]
        public static IService2 Service2;

        [ServiceDependency]
        public static IService3 Service3;

        [ServiceDependency]
        public static IService4 Service4;
    }

Which doesn't actually show the code that would instantiate Service1, 2, 3 or 4 so if you use this example, Service 1 will always be null if you try to use the class.

Being relatively new to the service locator pattern, would anyone care to hazard a guess as to how it should look?

For example in code where this class is used I can see things like :

ServiceLocator.Service1.SomeMethod();

[Kaloyan]

Hi,

Sorry for the late response. Can we get a copy of the aforementioned assembly so we can investigate the code snippet further?

Regards,
Kaloyan
the Telerik team