The Namespace Matching Rule

The namespace matching rule allows developers, operators, and administrators to select target classes based on their namespace, using wildcard characters for the child namespace names but not for the root namespace name.

Behavior of the Namespace Matching Rule

The namespace matching rule does the following:

• It uses the value of the parameters passed to it to configure the matching rule for injection.
• It compares each match string to the namespace of the target object, taking into account any wildcard characters for child namespaces. Note that the match string must specify the full root namespace name followed by a period (.).
• It performs the comparison on a non-case-sensitive basis if the ignoreCase parameter is True, or on a case-sensitive basis if the ignoreCase property is False.
• It returns True if the namespace of the target object matches the value of any of the namespace name values; if the namespace of the target object does not match the value of any of the namespace name values, it returns False.

The matching rules for a policy can be defined in configuration or created and applied to policies at run time. For more information about configuring matching rules at design time, see Configuration Files for Interception in the section Design-Time Configuration.

Creating a Namespace Matching Rule at Run Time

The following constructor overloads can be used when creating an instance of the NamespaceMatchingRule class.

NamespaceMatchingRule(string namespaceName)

NamespaceMatchingRule(string namespaceName, bool ignoreCase)

NamespaceMatchingRule(IEnumerable<MatchingInfo> matches)

'Usage
NamespaceMatchingRule(namespaceName As String)

NamespaceMatchingRule(namespaceName As String, ignoreCase As Boolean)

NamespaceMatchingRule(matches As IEnumerable(Of MatchingInfo))

The following table describes the parameters shown above.

Parameter	Description
namespaceName	String. This is the namespace of the target object, such as MyObjects.BusinessRules or System.Collections. It can include the * or ? wildcard characters for selecting multiple child namespaces. The following are examples: System.Collections.* MyObjects.Order* MyObjects.Order?? MyObjects.*
matches	MatchingInfo collection. A list of one or more namespaces, using the same rules as for the namespaceName parameter. MatchingInfo is a class used for storing information about a single name and case sensitivity value pair.
ignoreCase	Boolean. This specifies whether the match should be carried out on a case-sensitive basis. The default is false.

The following code extract shows how you can add a namespace matching rule to a policy using the Unity interception mechanism.

myContainer.Configure<Interception>()
           .AddPolicy("MyPolicy")
           .AddMatchingRule<NamespaceMatchingRule>
                (new InjectionConstructor("My.Namespace.Name", true))
           .AddCallHandler<MyCallHandler>
                ("MyValidator", 
                new ContainerControlledLifetimeManager());

'Usage
myContainer.Configure(Of Interception)() _
           .AddPolicy("MyPolicy") _
           .AddMatchingRule(Of NamespaceMatchingRule) _
                (New InjectionConstructor("My.Namespace.Name", True)) _
           .AddCallHandler(Of MyCallHandler) _
                ("MyValidator", New ContainerControlledLifetimeManager()) 

The code does not show how to create the container, add the Unity interception container extension, specify an interceptor, or resolve the intercepted target object. For more information about using matching rules with interception at run time, see Registering Policy Injection Components.