Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore 4.0.1

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Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore

Derived. The behaviour described here is specified under openspec/specs/. Those specifications are the source; this page explains and illustrates them.

License: MIT.

EF Core persistence for the Stratara event-sourced stack — PostgreSQL flavoured via Npgsql + pgvector. Bundles four previously-separate Stratara projects into one NuGet because they always ship together:

Folder Contents Old csproj
EntityFrameworkCore/ shared EF conventions, value generators, IDbContext / IReadDbContext / IWriteDbContext / ITenantScopedDbContext / IIdentityDbContext, UnitOfWork base, DefaultDbResolver, NpgsqlDbContextServiceCollectionExtensions, DbContextMigrationUtility Stratara.EntityFrameworkCore
WriteStore/ WriteDbContext, WriteUnitOfWork, event-stream/snapshot/event-chain/command-audit/outbox repositories + entity configurations Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore.WriteStore
ReadStore/ ReadDbContext, ReadUnitOfWork, ProjectionsUnitOfWork, Tenant repository, projection entity configurations Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore.ReadStore
IdentityStore/ Generic ASP.NET Identity IdentityDbContext + marker Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore.IdentityStore

Everything lives under Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore and its sub-namespaces (.WriteStore, .ReadStore, .IdentityStore, .Abstractions, .Conventions, .Extensions, .HealthChecks, .Migration). The DI extensions sit in Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection, per the Microsoft convention, so they resolve without an extra using.

Why folded

WriteStore-without-ReadStore is not a real use case. EF conventions + value generators + UnitOfWork primitives are foundational for every other store. ASP.NET Identity glue follows the same EF Core conventions. Splitting into 4 NuGets that always ship together adds version-management noise (4× <PackageVersion> to keep in sync, transitive-resolution risk) without any consumer benefit.

If your application doesn't use ASP.NET Identity, simply don't reference IdentityDbContext-derived types — the rest of the package works without them.

Quick start

Derive your contexts from the generic base classes — the type argument is the context itself:

using Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore.WriteStore;
using Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore.ReadStore;

public sealed class MyAppWriteDbContext(DbContextOptions<MyAppWriteDbContext> options)
    : WriteDbContext<MyAppWriteDbContext>(options);

public sealed class MyAppReadDbContext(DbContextOptions<MyAppReadDbContext> options)
    : ReadDbContext<MyAppReadDbContext>(options);

Then register the Npgsql context factories and the write store:

// In your AppHost / Worker / Web project:
builder.Services
    .AddNpgsqlWriteDbContextFactory<MyAppWriteDbContext>()
    .AddNpgsqlReadDbContextFactory<MyAppReadDbContext>()
    .AddWriteStore(builder.Configuration);                    // binds Stratara:EventSourcing options

Most hosts don't call these directly — the worker composites in Stratara.EventSourcing.WorkerDefaults (AddCommandWorkerServices(), AddEventProjectionWorkerServices(), …) already compose AddWriteStore for you. Reach for the explicit form when you build a host that none of the composites fit.

Renamed in 3.2.0, removed in 4.0.0: the write-side factory was AddNpsqlWriteDbContextFactory (missing the g) through 3.1.x. AddNpgsqlWriteDbContextFactory replaced it in 3.2.0 and the old spelling stayed as an [Obsolete] alias until 4.0.0, which removed it. A host still on the old spelling adds the g; nothing else about the call changes.

Health checks

Two opt-in readiness checks plug into any IHealthChecksBuilder (they require the write store above to be registered):

builder.Services.AddHealthChecks()
    .AddEventStoreHealthCheck()                                  // write-side DB reachable?
    .AddOutboxHealthCheck(degradedThreshold: 1_000,             // outbox backlog depth
                          unhealthyThreshold: 10_000);
  • AddEventStoreHealthCheck() — probes write-store connectivity; Unhealthy when the database cannot be reached.
  • AddOutboxHealthCheck(degradedThreshold?, unhealthyThreshold?) — reports the pending outbox backlog under the pending data key and escalates to Degraded / Unhealthy when the count crosses the supplied thresholds (omit them to stay healthy while reachable).

Both are tagged ready by default, so they show up on a readiness endpoint rather than the liveness (live) one.

Dependencies

  • Stratara.Projections — for projection types used by ProjectionsUnitOfWork.
  • Stratara.Shared — for diagnostics + abstractions + resilience.
  • Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL, EFCore.NamingConventions, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.EntityFrameworkCore, Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore, Microsoft.Extensions.Diagnostics.HealthChecks, Pgvector.EntityFrameworkCore.
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NuGet packages (3)

Showing the top 3 NuGet packages that depend on Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore:

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Stratara.Infrastructure

Infrastructure glue for the Stratara framework — authorization decorators, configuration providers, and DI composition helpers that wire Mediator, Outbox, Identity, and EF Core into a hosted app.

Stratara.EventSourcing.WorkerDefaults

Worker-host wiring composites for the Stratara event-sourced stack. IHostApplicationBuilder extensions (AddBackendServices, AddCommandWorkerServices, AddHeavyCommandWorkerServices, AddEventProjectionWorkerServices, AddEventStreamHashWorkerServices, AddSagaWorkerServices, AddOutboxWorkerServices) bundle the per-concern DI calls so each worker host opts in with one line.

Stratara.Testing.EntityFrameworkCore

Spin up the real Stratara event-sourcing write stack (EventSource, aggregation, snapshots, the EF Core write store) against a shared in-memory SQLite database in one call — production code paths, no Postgres, no Docker. Builds on Stratara.Testing's in-memory doubles.

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### Added

- **Bundles about one aggregate are now applied one at a time within a process, a handler can say
 "not yet", and the workers' parallelism is configurable.** The projection worker and the saga
 worker open one consumer per processor on a shared queue, so two bundles published milliseconds
 apart — the fact that creates an entity and the first fact about it — landed on two consumers and
 ran at the same time, and whichever finished first won. A projection that then found no row for
 the follow-up could only warn and acknowledge a fact it never applied, or throw and have the
 bundle discarded; either way the read model lost the fact until a replay. The command worker has
 never had this problem, because it takes a per-aggregate lock before it runs a command.

 Both workers now take the same lock, keyed on the streams the bundle's events belong to. Bundles
 about different aggregates still run in parallel; bundles about one aggregate queue behind each
 other. The guarantee is per process — two replicas consuming the same subscription do not
 serialise against each other — and the delivery guarantee now says so explicitly.

 The lock serialises but does not order, so the residual case gets a second chance:
 `PrecedingFactMissingException(streamId, eventTypeName)` in `Stratara.Abstractions` is the one
 exception the workers retry — five attempts from 100 ms doubling, about three seconds in all,
 under the new named policy `ResilienceNames.PrecedingFact`, with every aggregate lock released
 between attempts so the creating fact can land in the gap. Once the retries are exhausted the
 bundle fails as any unhandled failure does, and the warning logged on each attempt
 (`104_010` for projections, `110_005` for sagas) names the stream and the event type. Any other
 exception fails the bundle on the first attempt, as before.

 `Projections:DegreeOfParallelism` and `Sagas:DegreeOfParallelism` set the number of consumers each
 worker opens; a value that is not a positive number means the processor count, and `1` gives a
 worker that applies every bundle in the order the transport delivers it.

 A consumer that changes nothing gets the serialisation and the default parallelism it had. A
 consumer that implements `IMessageBus` itself is unaffected: the retry runs inside the worker
 before the transport sees an outcome. `BucketLockPool`, previously internal to the mediator, is
 now public in `Stratara.Abstractions` so that every worker takes the same lock from the same
 place; the mediator's own copy is gone.

### Changed

- **A published version now announces itself in the repository.** The release workflow gained a
 third job that creates the GitHub release entry for the tag once the packages have reached
 nuget.org, with the changelog section for that version as its notes — the same section the
 packages already carry as their release notes. A prerelease tag is marked as one, so it does not
 displace the current stable version. Until now the release list was maintained by hand and had
 fallen behind: 4.0.0 was on nuget.org while the repository still presented 3.4.0 as current.
 Nothing about what publishes, when, or on whose approval has changed.