Converting From Castle Windsor To StructureMap In An MVC2 Project - asp.net-mvc-2

Question

I am learning about best practices in MVC2 and I am knocking off a copy of the "Who Can Help Me" project (http://whocanhelpme.codeplex.com/) off Codeplex. In it, they use Castle Windsor for their DI container. One "learning" task I am trying to do is convert this subsystem in this project to use StructureMap.
Basically, at Application_Start(), the code news up a Windsor container. Then, it goes through multiple assemblies, using MEF, in ComponentRegistrar.cs:
public static class ComponentRegistrar
{
public static void Register(IContainer container)
{
var catalog = new CatalogBuilder()
.ForAssembly(typeof(IComponentRegistrarMarker).Assembly)
.ForMvcAssembly(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly())
.ForMvcAssembliesInDirectory(HttpRuntime.BinDirectory, "CPOP*.dll") // Won't work in Partial trust
.Build();
var compositionContainer = new CompositionContainer(catalog);
compositionContainer
.GetExports<IComponentRegistrar>()
.Each(e => e.Value.Register(container));
}
}
and any class in any assembly that has an IComponentRegistrar interface will get its Register() method run.
For example, the controller registrar's Register() method implementation basically is:
public void Register(IContainer container)
{
Assembly.GetAssembly(typeof(ControllersRegistrarMarker)).GetExportedTypes()
.Where(IsController)
.Each(type => container.AddComponentLifeStyle(
type.Name.ToLower(),
type,
LifestyleType.Transient ));
}
private static bool IsController(Type type)
{
return typeof(IController).IsAssignableFrom(type);
}
Hopefully, I am not butchering WCHM too much. I am wondering how does one do this with StructureMap? I'm assuming that I use Configure() since Initialize() resets the container on each call? Or, is tit a completely different approach? Do I need the MEF-based assembly scan, used to find all registrars and run each Register(), or is there something similar in StructureMap's Scan()?

Answer 1

Have a look at StructureMap's registries (http://structuremap.github.com/structuremap/RegistryDSL.htm). To control the lifecycle use something like:
For<ISomething>().Use<Something>().LifecycleIs(new SingletonLifecycle());
(Transient is the default).
When you bootstrap the container you can say:
ObjectFactory.Initialize(c => c.Scan(s => {
s.WithDefaultConventions();
s.LookForRegistries();
}

Answer 2

Feel dirty, answering my own question, but I did the following:
public class ControllerRegistrar : IComponentRegistrar
{
public void Register(IContainer container)
{
container.Configure(x =>
{
x.Scan(scanner =>
{
scanner.Assembly(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly());
scanner.AddAllTypesOf<IController>().NameBy(type => type.Name.Replace("Controller", ""));
});
});
}
}
I am not 100% sure this is right, but it works. Pulled it primarily from the "Registering Types by Name" section of this StructureMap doc page.