If you look at the signature you will see that it’s just a Service Locator with another name. Service Locator is an anti-pattern and I consider the relationship transitive, so I consider IDependencyResolver an anti-pattern. Apart from that, the interface is also broken because it has no Release method.
Because the class is now being injected with an IoC container, then why not use it to resolve all other dependencies too? Using the service locator pattern completely defeats one of the main points of dependency injection. The point of dependency injection is to make dependencies explicit. Once you hide those dependencies by not making … Read more
The difference may seem slight, but even with the ServiceLocator, the class is still responsible for creating its dependencies. It just uses the service locator to do it. With DI, the class is given its dependencies. It neither knows, nor cares where they come from. One important result of this is that the DI example … Read more
If you define patterns as anti-patterns just because there are some situations where it does not fit, then YES it’s an anti pattern. But with that reasoning all patterns would also be anti patterns. Instead we have to look if there are valid usages of the patterns, and for Service Locator there are several use … Read more