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Question:
Why is injecting Scoped into Singleton dangerous?
Junior Answer:
"Because their lifetimes are different. A Singleton lives for the entire application, while a Scoped service is created per request, so mixing them can cause the Scoped service to behave incorrectly."
Senior Answer:
Injecting a Scoped service into a Singleton breaks the intended lifetime boundaries of the DI system. A Scoped service is designed to exist per request, but a Singleton lives for the entire application lifetime. When you inject Scoped into Singleton, the dependency gets captured at the time the Singleton is created β and then reused across all requests. That leads to subtle but serious issues: You may end up using a disposed instance (since Scoped services are cleaned up after a request ends) Data can leak between requests, causing incorrect behavior In multi-threaded scenarios, it introduces race conditions because the same instance is shared unintentionally. More... Why interviewers like this answer: It explains not only what happens, but also the real-world consequences and trade-offs.
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