How to write a unit test (or regression test) for InstancePerRequest services in Autofac

In the past I have worked on complex projects with a lot of Autofac components. To check that everything can be resolved, we will write a unit test that tries to resolve all the necessary (upstream) components.

But now I am trying to do this for the first time in an ASP.NET MVC project.

I registered my ApiControllers like this:

builder.RegisterType<MyController>().InstancePerRequest();

      

        
        
        
      

    

And I thought to test like this:

var containerBuilder = new ContainerBuilder();
foreach (var module in ModuleRepository.GetModulesForWebsite())
{
    containerBuilder.RegisterModule(module);
}

var container = containerBuilder.Build();

foreach (var componentRegistryRegistration in container.ComponentRegistry.Registrations)
{
    foreach (var service in componentRegistryRegistration.Services.OfType<TypedService>())
    {
        if (service.ServiceType.IsAssignableTo<ApiController>())
        {
            var implementation = container.Resolve(service.ServiceType);
            implementation.Should().NotBeNull();
        }
    }
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

However, this results in this exception:

Autofac.Core.DependencyResolutionException: Unable to resolve 
the type 'Website.APIControllers.Clean.IngredientsController' 
because the lifetime scope it belongs in can't be located. The 
following services are exposed by this registration:
- MyProject.MyController

      

        
        
        
      

    

Does anyone have an idea how I can gracefully solve this? Should I spoof the HttpRequest? How and where do I do it? Or are there other options?