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Use Fody.EmptyConstructor on a separate project?

I have a solution with two projects Business and Domain I'm using Fody.EmptyConstructor to create parameterless constructors for my domain models on runtime. It works well when I add the Fody.EmptyConstructor package to the Domain project, but I'd rather not have that as a dependency there and instead have it in Business. Is there a way to do so?

-Sln 
--Domain 
--Business (has reference to Domain) 
---FodyWeavers.xml

FodyWeavers.xml:

<Weavers xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="FodyWeavers.xsd">
  <EmptyConstructor />
</Weavers>

Thanks in regard for any suggestions.

Solution

  • Fody needs to be installed in the project it modifies, along with its addins. It does not modify projects transitively, nor can it modify another project.

    But it won't add a dependency if you add the PrivateAssets="all" attribute to the PackageReference items of Fody and EmptyConstructor.Fody.

    Depending on how the weaver is configured, Fody will remove references to the weaver libraries. This is the case for EmptyConstructor.Fody.