Better handling for ASP.NET IoC lifetime when calling from outside an…

… ASP.NET request. References #39

src/React.Web/Exceptions/ReactAspNetException.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+/*
+ *  Copyright (c) 2014, Facebook, Inc.
+ *  All rights reserved.
+ *
+ *  This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
+ *  LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant 
+ *  of patent rights can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
+ */
+
+using System;
+using System.Runtime.Serialization;
+using React.Exceptions;
+
+namespace React.Web.Exceptions
+{
+	[Serializable]
+	public class ReactAspNetException : ReactException
+	{
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="ReactAspNetException"/> class.
+		/// </summary>
+		/// <param name="message">The message that describes the error.</param>
+		public ReactAspNetException(string message) : base(message) { }
+
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="ReactAspNetException"/> class.
+		/// </summary>
+		/// <param name="message">The error message that explains the reason for the exception.</param>
+		/// <param name="innerException">The exception that is the cause of the current exception, or a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) if no inner exception is specified.</param>
+		public ReactAspNetException(string message, Exception innerException)
+			: base(message, innerException) { }
+
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Used by deserialization
+		/// </summary>
+		protected ReactAspNetException(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context) 
+			: base(info, context) { }
+	}
+}

src/React.Web/React.Web.csproj

@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
     <Compile Include="AspNetCache.cs" />
     <Compile Include="AspNetFileSystem.cs" />
     <Compile Include="AssemblyRegistration.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="Exceptions\ReactAspNetException.cs" />
     <Compile Include="IJsxHandler.cs" />
     <Compile Include="TinyIoCAspNetExtensions.cs" />
     <Compile Include="WebInitializer.cs" />

src/React.Web/TinyIoCAspNetExtensions.cs

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Web;
 using React.TinyIoC;
+using React.Web.Exceptions;
 
 namespace React.Web.TinyIoC
 {
@@ -35,7 +36,8 @@ public class HttpContextLifetimeProvider : TinyIoCContainer.ITinyIoCObjectLifeti
 		/// <returns>Object instance or null</returns>
 		public object GetObject()
 		{
-			return HttpContext.Current.Items[_keyName];
+			var context = HttpContext.Current;
+			return context == null ? null : context.Items[_keyName];
 		}
 
 		/// <summary>
@@ -44,7 +46,15 @@ public object GetObject()
 		/// <param name="value">Object to store</param>
 		public void SetObject(object value)
 		{
-			HttpContext.Current.Items[_keyName] = value;
+			var context = HttpContext.Current;
+			if (context == null)
+			{
+				throw new ReactAspNetException(
+					"Trying to store item in HttpContext.Current while not in an ASP.NET " +
+					"request!"
+				);
+			}
+			context.Items[_keyName] = value;
 		}
 
 		/// <summary>