Web API 2.1 Global Exception Handling is missing IoC integration

Web API 2.1 brings a lot of great new features to the table. One of them is global error handling, allowing you to log all unhandled exceptions through one central mechanism

This is a sample from the Web Api documentation:

	public class TraceSourceExceptionLogger : ExceptionLogger
	{
	private readonly TraceSource _traceSource;
	public TraceSourceExceptionLogger(TraceSource traceSource)
	{
	_traceSource = traceSource;
	}
	public override void Log(ExceptionLoggerContext context)
	{
	_traceSource.TraceEvent(TraceEventType.Error, 1,
	"Unhandled exception processing {0} for {1}: {2}",
	context.Request.Method,
	context.Request.RequestUri,
	context.Exception);
	}
	}
	config.Services.Add(typeof(IExceptionLogger),
	new TraceSourceExceptionLogger(new
	TraceSource("MyTraceSource", SourceLevels.All)));

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The annoying thing I noticed is that the IExceptionLogger interface is not resolved through the dependency injection integration mechanism that Web API offers out-of-the-box. So you explicitly have to register your implementation through the Services property on the HttpConfiguration object.

Hopefully the Web API team will change this in the future...