Which is correct?

This is in regards to the unit of work pattern. I’ve seen it done two ways now, and I’m not sure which one represents the ‘real’ pattern. I will outline below.

The first way is to inject your unit of work implementor into the repository constructor and injecting a session/context into the unit of work constructor.

The second way is to inject both your unit of work implementor and your repositories with a session/context, and they live separatly so that repositories can be used independantly for fetching operations, or within a using block for transacted updates.

The decision to micro-transactionalize versus macro-transactionalize is going to affect some upcoming projects. Any guidance would be great.

Thanks!

They are both right, depends on the project and how you consider transactions. Could even manage it differently in different places for all it matters.