Dependency injection in my singleton class .NET Core - .net-core

Question

I'm having trouble injecting the dependency I pass into the constructor of my Asegurador class.
When I want to instantiate, _instance = new Asegurador(); I don't have the parameter required by the constructor (IGeneralRepository), how can I solve this problem?
Note that my Asegurador class is a singleton.
private Asegurador(IGeneralRepository generalRepository)
{
_token = GetTokenAsync().Result;
_repository = generalRepository;
}
public static Asegurador Instance
{
get
{
if (_instance == null)
{
_local = System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SEGUROS_LOCAL") ?? "local";
_instance = new Asegurador();
}
return _instance;
}
}

Answer 1

When using a DI container you can (and should) let it take care of handling the Lifetime of a dependency.
.Net core's dependency injection lets you define 3 different lifetimes for your services (Docs):
Transient: a transient service is recreated each time it is injected
Scoped: a scoped service is created once for each request
Singleton: a singleton is created once in the whole application lifetime.
The best approach to achieve what you are trying to do is the following:
Amend your Asegurador class so that it has a public constructor and get rid of the static Instance property
public class Asegurador {
public Asegurador(IGeneralRepository generalRepository)
{
_token = GetTokenAsync().Result; //I know too few about it but I would try to pass it as a dependency as well
_repository = generalRepository;
}
}
instead of calling Asegurador.Instance inject the dependency in the client class
public class IUseTheAsegurador {
private Asegurador _asegurador;
public IUseTheAsegurador(Asegurador asegurador)
{
_asegurador = asegurador;
}
}
Register all in the DI in your Startup.cs:
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
...
services.AddSingleton<Asegurador>();
services.AddScoped<IUseAsegurador>(); //This can be Singleton or Transient as well, depending on your needs
...
}
I (a lot of people actually :D) prefer this approach because it leaves the responsability of guaranteeing a single instance to the DI and also because lets you write unit tests for the client class (IUseTheAsegurador in the example) in an easier way.