Stratara.Mediator
4.1.0
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dotnet add package Stratara.Mediator --version 4.1.0
NuGet\Install-Package Stratara.Mediator -Version 4.1.0
<PackageReference Include="Stratara.Mediator" Version="4.1.0" />
<PackageVersion Include="Stratara.Mediator" Version="4.1.0" />
<PackageReference Include="Stratara.Mediator" />
paket add Stratara.Mediator --version 4.1.0
#r "nuget: Stratara.Mediator, 4.1.0"
#:package Stratara.Mediator@4.1.0
#addin nuget:?package=Stratara.Mediator&version=4.1.0
#tool nuget:?package=Stratara.Mediator&version=4.1.0
Stratara.Mediator
Derived. The behaviour described here is specified under
openspec/specs/. Those specifications are the source; this page explains and illustrates them.
License: MIT.
In-process mediator with DI-resolved handlers and pipeline behaviors. Drop-in replacement for MediatR-style routing without the runtime cost of MethodInfo.Invoke — uses a typed wrapper cache and direct DI dispatch.
Quick start
services.AddMediator()
.AddCommandHandlersFromAssemblyContaining<Program>()
.AddQueryHandlersFromAssemblyContaining<Program>()
.AddPipelineBehaviorWithResult(typeof(LoggingBehavior<,>))
.AddPipelineBehavior(typeof(LoggingBehavior<>));
// Optional: wrap in authorization decorator
services.AddAuthorizingMediator<MyAuthorizationProvider>();
Every dispatch is traced as a span named Handle <RequestType>. The spans come from the
Stratara.Application activity source — subscribe to it and they appear; register your own
OpenTelemetry Tracer and the mediator uses that instead. Nothing has to be registered for the
mediator to start.
IMediator is registered scoped. Resolve it from a scope (a request scope in ASP.NET Core, or
an explicit IServiceProvider.CreateScope() in a console host) — resolving it from the root
provider throws.
What's in the box
IMediator.HandleAsync<TResult>(IRequest<TResult>, CancellationToken)— routes queries and commands-with-result toIQueryHandler<TRequest, TResult>through any registeredIPipelineBehavior<TRequest, TResult>chain.IMediator.HandleAsync<TRequest>(TRequest, CancellationToken)— routes void commands toICommandHandler<TRequest>through any registeredIPipelineBehavior<TRequest>chain.AuthorizingMediatordecorator — checks[RequireRole]attributes viaIAuthorizationProviderand[RequirePermission]attributes viaIPermissionResolver(both AND) on the request's runtime type before delegating to the inner mediator. Its startup validator fails fast when a permission-guarded type is registered without an authorizing mediator or without a resolver, so a guard can never be silently skipped.BucketLockPool— concurrency primitive that serialisesIAggregateScopedCommanddispatch per bucket id. Used by message-bus consumers (e.g. theMediatorCommandWorkerinStratara.Outbox.RabbitMQ) to keep aggregate writes single-writer.
Pipeline behavior contract
Behaviors run outer-to-inner in DI registration order:
public sealed class LoggingBehavior<TRequest, TResult> : IPipelineBehavior<TRequest, TResult>
where TRequest : IRequest<TResult>
{
public async Task<TResult> HandleAsync(
TRequest request, Func<Task<TResult>> next, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
{
// before
var result = await next();
// after
return result;
}
}
Tenant isolation
AddStrataraTenantIsolation() registers a pipeline behavior that enforces tenant isolation at the
mediator entrance — before the handler runs — for any request that opts in by implementing the
ITenantScopedRequest marker. Requests that do not implement the marker pass through untouched.
public sealed record GetCustomerQuery(Guid CustomerId, Guid TenantId)
: IQuery<CustomerDto>, ITenantScopedRequest;
services
.AddStrataraValidation() // validation stays outermost
.AddStrataraTenantIsolation(); // then tenant isolation
The behavior compares the request's TenantId (the data owner) against the ambient session's
data-owner tenant (SessionContext.TenantId), not the actor tenant (SessionContext.ActorTenantId).
A request whose payload names a different tenant than the established session subject is rejected with
TenantAccessDeniedException (translated to HTTP 403 on ASP.NET hosts that register
AddStrataraProblemDetails() from Stratara.ServiceDefaults.AspNetCore; surfaced through the
message-failure path on workers).
Default vs. strict mode
TenantIsolationMode.Default— enforces only the subject match. A privileged cross-tenant operation (actor tenant ≠ data-owner tenant) passes, because the calling endpoint is expected to have promoted the session's data-owner tenant to the target before dispatch.TenantIsolationMode.Strict— additionally routes every cross-tenant operation through anICrossTenantAuthorizer. Stratara registers a deny-all default (viaTryAdd), so strict mode rejects all cross-tenant access until you register your own authorizer that grants it:
services.AddStrataraTenantIsolation(o => o.Mode = TenantIsolationMode.Strict);
services.AddScoped<ICrossTenantAuthorizer, PlatformAdminCrossTenantAuthorizer>();
internal sealed class PlatformAdminCrossTenantAuthorizer(IHttpContextAccessor http)
: ICrossTenantAuthorizer
{
public ValueTask<bool> IsCrossTenantAllowedAsync(SessionContext session, CancellationToken ct) =>
ValueTask.FromResult(http.HttpContext?.User.IsInRole("PlatformAdmin") ?? false);
}
The behavior runs both in-process (queries via
IMediatorat the endpoint, whereHttpContextis available) and worker-side (commands dispatched through the outbox, where there is noHttpContext). AnICrossTenantAuthorizerthat needs request-role state should be applied on the in-process path; the worker path must base its decision on theSessionContextalone.
Dependencies
Stratara.Abstractions— forIMediator/IRequest/ICommand/IQuery/IPipelineBehaviorcontracts, plusITenantScopedRequest/ICrossTenantAuthorizer/TenantAccessDeniedException.Stratara.Diagnostics— log-event IDs for the tenant-isolation behavior.Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.Abstractions.Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions.OpenTelemetry.Api— emits anActivityper dispatch under theStratara.Applicationsource.
No EF Core, no message bus, no event sourcing. Library-safe.
| Product | Versions Compatible and additional computed target framework versions. |
|---|---|
| .NET | net10.0 is compatible. net10.0-android was computed. net10.0-browser was computed. net10.0-ios was computed. net10.0-maccatalyst was computed. net10.0-macos was computed. net10.0-tvos was computed. net10.0-windows was computed. |
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net10.0
- JetBrains.Annotations (>= 2026.2.0)
- Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.Abstractions (>= 10.0.11)
- Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.Abstractions (>= 10.0.11)
- Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions (>= 10.0.11)
- Microsoft.Extensions.Options (>= 10.0.11)
- OpenTelemetry.Api (>= 1.18.0)
- Stratara.Abstractions (>= 4.1.0)
- Stratara.Diagnostics (>= 4.1.0)
NuGet packages (3)
Showing the top 3 NuGet packages that depend on Stratara.Mediator:
| Package | Downloads |
|---|---|
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Stratara.Validation
Vendor-neutral request validation for the Stratara framework — a mediator pipeline behavior that runs IValidator<T> implementations before the handler and throws an aggregated StrataraValidationException on failure. No FluentValidation dependency; an optional adapter is shipped separately. |
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Stratara.Outbox.RabbitMQ
Outbox-pattern command and event dispatch for the Stratara event-sourced stack — RabbitMQ IMessageBus implementation, retry worker, mediator command worker, and Redis-coordinated projection-replay state. Azure Service Bus support ships as the sibling Stratara.Outbox.AzureServiceBus package. |
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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. |
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| Version | Downloads | Last Updated |
|---|---|---|
| 4.4.1 | 91 | 9/29/2026 |
| 4.4.0 | 144 | 9/27/2026 |
| 4.3.1 | 139 | 9/25/2026 |
| 4.3.0 | 419 | 9/23/2026 |
| 4.2.0 | 193 | 9/18/2026 |
| 4.1.1 | 132 | 9/16/2026 |
| 4.1.0 | 134 | 9/16/2026 |
| 4.0.4 | 958 | 9/14/2026 |
| 4.0.3 | 223 | 9/3/2026 |
| 4.0.2 | 654 | 9/3/2026 |
| 4.0.1 | 311 | 9/2/2026 |
| 4.0.0 | 682 | 8/31/2026 |
| 4.0.0-preview.1 | 88 | 8/31/2026 |
| 3.4.0 | 175 | 8/28/2026 |
| 3.3.0 | 377 | 8/25/2026 |
| 3.2.3 | 164 | 8/22/2026 |
| 3.2.2 | 775 | 8/14/2026 |
| 3.2.1 | 416 | 8/2/2026 |
| 3.2.0 | 166 | 7/18/2026 |
| 3.1.7 | 314 | 7/1/2026 |
The Orleans execution model ships as two new packages, `Stratara.Orleans` and
`Stratara.Orleans.EntityFrameworkCore`: one writer per aggregate across a cluster, accepted commands that
survive a crash, and projections and sagas that never miss a committed fact. Every host on the Entity
Framework store generates one migration when it upgrades, whether or not it adopts the execution model.
Telemetry type tags now carry the simple type name on every instrument, so a dashboard that filters the
projection, saga or conflict series on the qualified name needs its filter updated. Eight fixes land on
the retry, conflict, redaction and encryption work of 4.0.4, with one new warning to know about.
### Added
- **The Orleans execution model: `Stratara.Orleans` and `Stratara.Orleans.EntityFrameworkCore`.**
Commands, projections, sagas, durable timers and singleton work run as virtual actors on an Orleans
10.3 cluster. One aggregate has one writer across the deployment; a command the execution model's
dispatcher accepts is recorded before the call returns and resumed after a crash, a bounded number of
times, through the same mediator pipeline as on the bus; projections and sagas read the store in
commit order from a checkpoint, so a crash costs latency and never a committed fact; singleton work
runs once per cluster without a lock; a failing entry stops its partition and is retried instead of
being dropped. Handlers, projections and sagas are unchanged, each role is adopted with one
registration after its composite, and both models can run side by side during a rollout. Every
setting is validated at start. See *Choose an Execution Model*, *Migrate to the Orleans Execution
Model* and *Operate the Orleans Execution Model* on the documentation site.
- **Schema additions — every host on the Entity Framework store generates a migration.** The framework's
write context declares `event_stream_entry.partition_position`, the `partition_position` table, on
PostgreSQL `event_stream_entry.commit_transaction_id`, and the `outbox_entry` columns `aggregate_id`,
`heavy`, `attempt_count`, `last_handed_over_at`, `kept_at` and `last_failure`; the read context declares
`projection_checkpoint`. They are part of the model whether or not a host adopts the execution model, so
every host on `Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore` generates and applies a migration after
upgrading — without it, appends and outbox writes fail on the missing columns. A store that never runs
the execution model carries them unfilled; on PostgreSQL an append also reads back the transaction id.
- **Composites without the bus-fed worker.** `AddEventProjectionServices()` and `AddSagaServices()`
register the projection and saga runtimes without their bus workers; `AddProjectionHandling` and
`AddSagaHandling` do the same on `IServiceCollection`.
- **Every instrument name is a published constant.** `ApplicationDiagnostics.Metrics` carries a
`…Name` constant beside each instrument — `EventsAppendedName`, `ProjectionEventsProcessedName`,
`SagasInFlightName` and the others — so a query or listener references the name instead of a literal.
`ApplicationDiagnostics.MetricTags.TypeNameValue` gives the value a type tag carries for a type name.
- `LogEvents.Messaging.WorkerQueueDeclaredWithOtherArguments` (`108_112`), the warning a RabbitMQ
worker logs when it uses an existing queue declared with other arguments.
### Changed
- **`event.type` and `aggregate.type` carry the simple type name on every instrument.** On
`projection.events.processed`, `saga.events.processed` and `event_source.append.conflicts` the tag
value changes from the assembly-qualified name (`Shop.Orders.OrderPlaced, Shop.Orders`) to the simple
name (`OrderPlaced`), the form `event_source.events.appended` already used, so write and read series
join on the same value. A dashboard or alert that filters those three series on the qualified name
needs its filter updated; no instrument or tag name changes.
- **`AddAuthorizingCommandOutboxDispatcher()` decorates whichever command dispatcher is registered**, not
only the RabbitMQ one, and composes with a dispatcher registered after it.
### Fixed
- **RabbitMQ: changing the retry bounds no longer stops a worker from subscribing.** A worker queue
carries `x-delivery-limit` from the bounds it was first declared with, and RabbitMQ refuses a
redeclaration with a different value — so a deployment that changed `MessageRetry` failed every
subscription with `PRECONDITION_FAILED`. An existing queue is now used as it is, and the bus logs
`108_112` naming it. From RabbitMQ 4.3 the old limit does not cut the new bounds short; before 4.3
a raised bound needs the drained queue deleted once.
- **Azure Service Bus: a subscription whose `MaxDeliveryCount` is below the bounds no longer hides
its dead-lettering.** Where the host can read the subscription, the bounds for it are lowered to
fit under the broker's limit, so the framework makes the move and it reaches `108_110` and
`messaging.dead_lettered`. The warning `108_111` now says so. A failure to read the subscription
of any kind other than cancellation ends the check instead of the subscription.
- **A unique violation is a concurrency conflict whatever exception type carries it.** The event
source consulted the registered `IStoreConflictDetector`s only for an Entity Framework
`DbUpdateException`, so a unit of work that surfaced the provider's exception unwrapped got a
persistence failure instead of a `ConcurrencyException`. Every detector now sees the exception
as the save threw it, as its contract says.
- **Proxy credentials and response cookies are redacted from traces in the form the semantic
conventions name them.** The HTTP client and ASP.NET Core enrichment callbacks replaced
`http.request.header.proxy_authorization` and `http.response.header.set_cookie`, but the
OpenTelemetry semantic conventions keep the dash — `proxy-authorization`, `set-cookie` — so a host
that captured headers under those names exported the values. Both forms are redacted now.
- **The concurrency-conflict policy retries a conflict the event source reports.** An append that
lost the race surfaces from `IEventSource.SaveChangesAsync` as `ConcurrencyException`, and
`ResilienceNames.ConcurrencyConflict` retried only `ConcurrencyConflictException` — so an
`IResilientRequest` whose handler appends events ran once and failed on the first conflict. The
policy now retries both, and still nothing else.
- **A revoked encrypted field of a value type reads as its default instead of failing the object.**
Deserialization wrote an unreadable field back as JSON `null`, which a `decimal`, `int` or other
non-nullable value type cannot hold — so erasing a subject's key made every record with such a
field throw instead of degrading. The field now reads as the type's default, and the object's
other fields are recovered.
- **`InMemoryKeyStore` keeps a scope usable after its current version is revoked.** Revoking the
current key left the scope pointing at a key that no longer existed, so the next
`GetOrCreateCurrentKeyAsync` threw. It now falls back to the highest remaining version, or creates
a new one, as `EnvelopeFileKeyStore` does.
- **`IAggregationService.AggregateAsync` no longer documents `fromVersion` as a start version.** The
parameter has never been honoured: a rebuild starts from the stream's beginning, or from the latest
snapshot at or below `toVersion`. Its documentation now says so; the signature is unchanged.