Adding HostProvider

[smolchanovsky]

The HostProvider will allow getting hosts in runtime. Most likely, the provider should be passed to For method.

[Kingmidas74]

How you suggest use IHostProvider with DI? We should setup host on service.AddNClient(.....)

[smolchanovsky]

I think it can look like this:

serviceCollection.AddRestNClient(implementationFactory: (serviceProvider, builder) =>
{
    var hostProvider = serviceProvider.GetRequiredService<MyHostProvider>();
    builder.For<IMyClient>(hostProvider).Build();
});

[Kingmidas74]

Well... Maybe we already have this feature?
https://github.com/nclient/NClient/blob/main/tests/NClient.Extensions/NClient.Extensions.DependencyInjection.Tests/AddRestNClientExtensionsTest.cs#L73

[smolchanovsky]

Not quite. We can do for example like this:

serviceCollection.AddRestNClient(implementationFactory: (serviceProvider, builder) => 
{
    var hostProvider = serviceProvider.GetRequiredService<MyHostProvider>();
    var host = hostProvider.Get();
    builder
        .For<IBasicClientWithMetadata>(host)
        .Build()
});

This is similar to what I want, but the host provider will create the host only once, since the client is a singleton. Perhaps if we implement #449 (comment), it will cover most of the needs. However, we should remember that clients can be created not only using DI.