Validator dependency sharing / disposing

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Is there a way I can share dependencies between a validator and a service? In particular an IDbConnection.

Currently I’m injecting a IDbConnectionFactory into my validator then lazy loading an IDbConnection, like Service does. However the validator doesn’t get disposed until the service does, so that connection hangs around.

Is there a way I can share the connection? (Maybe by resolving it differently in the validator?) Or can the validator be disposed sooner?

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There’s no way to share dependency instances across logic classes, tho it shouldn’t matter if your DB connection is using a connection pool.

If your validator implements IDisposable then it should now be disposed after usage from this commit.

This change is available from v4.0.49 that’s now available on MyGet.

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That’s great, thanks