Stratara.Mediator 4.4.1

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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 to IQueryHandler<TRequest, TResult> through any registered IPipelineBehavior<TRequest, TResult> chain.
  • IMediator.HandleAsync<TRequest>(TRequest, CancellationToken) — routes void commands to ICommandHandler<TRequest> through any registered IPipelineBehavior<TRequest> chain.
  • AuthorizingMediator decorator — checks [RequireRole] attributes via IAuthorizationProvider and [RequirePermission] attributes via IPermissionResolver (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 serialises IAggregateScopedCommand dispatch per bucket id. Used by message-bus consumers (e.g. the MediatorCommandWorker in Stratara.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, or 401 for a caller that is not authenticated; 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 an ICrossTenantAuthorizer. Stratara registers a deny-all default (via TryAdd), 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 IMediator at the endpoint, where HttpContext is available) and worker-side (commands dispatched through the outbox, where there is no HttpContext). An ICrossTenantAuthorizer that needs request-role state should be applied on the in-process path; the worker path must base its decision on the SessionContext alone.

Dependencies

  • Stratara.Abstractions — for IMediator/IRequest/ICommand/IQuery/IPipelineBehavior contracts, plus ITenantScopedRequest/ICrossTenantAuthorizer/TenantAccessDeniedException.
  • Stratara.Diagnostics — log-event IDs for the tenant-isolation behavior.
  • Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.Abstractions.
  • Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions.
  • OpenTelemetry.Api — emits an Activity per dispatch under the Stratara.Application source.

No EF Core, no message bus, no event sourcing. Library-safe.

Product 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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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.

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.

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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A release about errors that were not errors. Where two writers insert the same row at once — two
deliveries forgetting a deleted tenant, two activations writing a partition's first checkpoint, two
hosts importing one API key — the framework already recovered, but EF Core had logged the losing
statement at Error first; on PostgreSQL and SQLite the insert now skips a row that is already there.
And a RabbitMQ bus whose broker went away first no longer reports a warning for every subscription it
stops, nor a failed handler for a message it merely could not acknowledge. No migration and no
configuration change is needed.

### Fixed

- **Forgetting a deleted tenant leaves no error in the log when two deliveries race.** A tenant's two
 deletion facts arrive in two bundles, so two deliveries of one projection can record the same tenant
 at once. The losing insert was caught and the tenant recorded all the same, but EF Core had already
 logged the failed statement at Error (`20102` and `10000`), so a customer deletion could leave two
 errors in a projection worker's log. On PostgreSQL and SQLite the tenants are now recorded with an
 insert that skips a row already there; on other providers the store still retries, and EF Core still
 logs the statement that lost.
- **A projection checkpoint's first write, and an API key two hosts import at once, leave no error in
 the log.** Two activations of one reader that overlap during a failover can both write a partition's
 first checkpoint, and hosts that seed the same key as they boot import it at once. The writer whose
 insert lost recovered — it took the other's checkpoint over, or adopted the other's key — but EF Core
 had already logged the failed statement at Error. On PostgreSQL and SQLite the insert now skips a row
 that is already there, as the record of forgotten tenants does; a checkpoint that another writer
 inserted and removed again before it could be taken over is refused with an
 `InvalidOperationException`. An import takes that path only where it is the only write on its
 context, and then writes the key and its membership in one transaction of its own, outside
 `SaveChanges` and its interceptors. An import on a context with unsaved changes or inside a
 transaction of the caller's saves through `SaveChanges` as before, and so does a table a consumer
 widened with columns the row does not carry, and every other provider: there the writer still
 recovers, and EF Core still logs the statement that lost.
- **A RabbitMQ subscription whose broker is already gone stops without a warning.** When a stack stops
 its broker before its hosts, a stopping subscription's cancel met a connection that had already
 closed, or that closed while the cancel waited for its reply, and every subscription of every host
 logged `108_107` at Warning — new in 4.4.0, which made a subscription cancel its consumer before it
 closes. A closed connection has no consumer left to cancel, which is where the stop was going, so
 this is now logged at Debug as `108_007` (`LogEvents.Messaging.SubscriptionAlreadyClosed`). A cancel
 that fails while the connection is still up still warns.
- **A handler that completes after the broker went away is no longer reported as failed.** Its
 acknowledgement met a closed channel, and the RabbitMQ bus logged `108_101` at Error although the
 handler had succeeded, then tried to reject the message on the same closed channel. It now logs
 `108_008` (`LogEvents.Messaging.MessageNotSettledChannelClosed`) at Information: the message could
 not be settled, and the broker delivers it again.