Support for CoreWCF

[ibrahimabtula]

Problem Statement

I am trying to use Autofac.Wcf with CoreWCF(https://github.com/CoreWCF/CoreWCF) but nuget is only available for .NET Framework 4.7.2

Desired Solution

Can you add support for .net 5/6/7.
If I am not mistaken it should require only a rebuild with different Target framework moniker (TFM).

Alternatives You've Considered

Additional Context

[tillig]

Since native WCF (referenced by this project) is only available on desktop .NET, it's not just adding a TFM; it'll be adding the CoreWCF references, adding the associated tests, updating the docs, and adding an example to the examples repo.

If you're up to it, we'd be happy to review PRs for these things.

[ibrahimabtula]

Thanks for the quick response, I'll be happy to work on it during the weekends :)

[Kermel]

Hello @ibrahimabtula - just curious - is there possibly anything new regarding the rewrite for CoreWcf?

Edit: I have actually tried myself but there is a problem with converting the "AutofacHostFactory" and derived types (they all inherit originally from ServiceHostFactory and provide ServiceHost instances but none of those types exist (and will exist) in CoreWCF

I didn't dive deep enough to the WCF and CoreWCF to figure out how to do this properly :-/

[EricDionne]

Hello @ibrahimabtula and @tillig,

We are currently trying to make CoreWcf and autofac work together but we didn't succeed and we are out of ideas.

Do you know if there is any progress on this issue ?

[tillig]

There is no change from the Autofac standpoint or you'd have seen some notes here. This is also pretty low priority, all things considered, so likely we'll be relying on the community to either ship their own CoreWCF support library or submit pull requests to make this whole thing work with both original and CoreWCF. Any progress or further work here, at least by the Autofac team, will be posted here in an effort to save time with future progress requests.