We are using the routing functionality to give our RESTful WCF service nice endpoints, however I ran into trouble, none of our services were being injected.

The service had two constructors which seemed odd, an empty one and one with dependencies specified…

public Api()
{
}

public Api(IBasket basketService)
{
    _basketService = basketService;
}

The injected services were NULL, so I removed the public constructor and got:

This sounds like the default WCF factory at work, checking the SVC files we get:

<%@ ServiceHost 
    Language="C#" 
    Factory="Castle.Facilities.WcfIntegration.DefaultServiceHostFactory, Castle.Facilities.WcfIntegration" 
    Service="MyProject.Api" 
%>   

That’s also configured correctly, but we have overridden the default routing, let’s take a look at that:

RouteTable.Routes.Add(new ServiceRoute("Api", new ServiceHostFactory(), typeof(Api)));

That looks like the default WCF factory to me… Doh! Let’s fix that up…

RouteTable.Routes.Add(new ServiceRoute("Api", new DefaultServiceHostFactory(container.Kernel), typeof(IApi)));

Great, we are now using the windsor factory, and we can remove the default parameter-less constructor from our API service.