castle windsor container not wiring properties correctly

Question

I have a class that i want to instantiate thru castle in configuration.

public class MyMappings : IMappings
{
    Mapping FirstMapping { get; set; }
    Mapping SecondMapping { get; set; }
    OtherType ThirdMapping { get; set; }
    OtherType FourthMapping { get; set; }
    Mapping FifthMapping { get; set; }
    OtherType SixMapping { get; set; }
}

In my configuration i have the following:

< component id="mymappings" type="MyMappings, MyAssmebly" >
   < parameters>
       < firstMapping>${anothercomponentIDForCompomentOftypeMapping}< /firstMapping>
   < /parameters>
< /component>

The problem i am facing is that is assigning the same value to all properties of the same type, completly ignoring the name of the parameter. This properties are optional, i just want to initialize the value for one of them.

Thanks,

Answer 1

If you have components with type Mapping or OtherType registered in the container, Windsor will inject them in your optional dependencies. What you did in your xml configuration is a service override, that is, you selected a specific component for a specific parameter, but that doesn't mean that other parameters will not be injected is a fitting component is available.

If you want to avoid injecting some optional dependencies, see this question.