Make Autofac exceptions serializable

[alexmg]

From david.r...@fusonic.net on September 10, 2013 21:10:59

Make all Autofac exceptions (e.x. DependencyResolutionException) serializable so that it is possible to serialize them across app domains.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/autofac/issues/detail?id=456

[alexmg]

From travis.illig on September 10, 2013 16:37:46

Autofac is now a portable class library to support multiple platforms simultaneously. Unfortunately, PCL doesn't support [Serializaable] or exception/binary serialization like that.

This is a pretty common question about PCL and custom exceptions. Here's an example question from StackOverflow. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13604713/implementing-custom-exceptions-in-a-portable-class-library What it boils down to is that there's not really anything we can do about it. There's no current plan to revert back and create platform-specific targeted versions of Autofac (we went PCL to avoid that), which is the only solution to the issue.

What you can do on your end if you need to receive exceptions across AppDomains is to add exception handling in the AppDomain that will catch the Autofac exception(s) and marshal them across the boundary as a different exception type of your choosing.

Status: WontFix
Labels: Module-Core

[alexmg]

From travis.illig on September 10, 2013 16:39:25

Here's the "official" response on this from the PCL team: http://pclcontrib.codeplex.com/discussions/387791

[alexmg]

From david.r...@fusonic.net on September 10, 2013 22:34:24

Well to be specific, what I really want is to serialize the exception to filesystem via the BinaryFormatter class.

But since there is no PCL support we will have to handle these exceptions separately.