Stratara.Outbox.AzureServiceBus 4.4.2

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Stratara.Outbox.AzureServiceBus

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

License: MIT.

Azure Service Bus implementation of Stratara.Abstractions.Messaging.IMessageBus. Publishes JSON-serialized messages to topics and exposes a subscription helper that wires up a Service Bus processor with per-message exception classification:

  • success → CompleteMessageAsync
  • ConcurrencyException → AbandonMessageAsync until MessageRetry:MaxConflictRequeues redeliveries (default 100) have not resolved it, then DeadLetterMessageAsync with reason conflict
  • any other exception → AbandonMessageAsync until MessageRetry:MaxDeliveryAttempts deliveries (default 3) have failed, then DeadLetterMessageAsync with reason failure and the exception in the description

The subscription's own MaxDeliveryCount must leave room for the bounds; a subscription created with Service Bus defaults allows 10 deliveries. Where the host can read the subscription, the bus lowers the bounds for it to fit and logs 108_111.

System-level errors (connection drops, auth failures) arrive via ProcessErrorAsync and are logged; the Service Bus client owns the reconnect / retry policy for those.

A subscription that stops closes its processor, which takes no further message and waits for its running handler — as long as the host's shutdown timeout allows while the application stops, twenty seconds otherwise; the host waits for that before it counts as stopped. A handler that gives up because the subscription stops has its message abandoned rather than dead-lettered by the framework; the broker counts that delivery like any other. A handler's outcome is settled whatever the subscription's own cancellation says, and a handler that failed because its save committed but could not publish has its message completed, not delivered again.

Install

dotnet add package Stratara.Outbox.AzureServiceBus

Register the bus in your DI composition — one call wires the ServiceBusClient, the envelope options and the IMessageBus implementation:

// Connection string:
builder.Services.AddAzureServiceBus(builder.Configuration.GetConnectionString("ServiceBus")!);

// Or, preferred in Azure — managed identity, no secret in configuration:
builder.Services.AddAzureServiceBusWithManagedIdentity("my-namespace.servicebus.windows.net");

The AzureServiceBusBus implementation is internal; register it through these extensions rather than by naming the type.

The explicitly-chosen transport wins. AddAzureServiceBus replaces the IMessageBus registration, so it takes effect even when the RabbitMQ umbrella (builder.AddMessaging(), which the worker composites call) already claimed the slot. Still use one transport per host — calling both is a configuration smell — but an explicit AddAzureServiceBus will no longer be a silent no-op behind a composite.

Notes

Pre-3.0 this implementation lived inside Stratara.Outbox.RabbitMQ. As of 3.0 the two transports are separate packages so a consumer who only wants RabbitMQ does not drag the Azure Service Bus SDK into the dependency tree (and vice versa).

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A release about a flag that cost too much. Every host sharing the replay coordination state over Redis
asked Redis, with a blocking round trip on the calling thread, whether a replay was active — and the
Orleans execution model asked on every hot path, eight to ten times per command on a host with three
projections, inside grain turns. On a two-core host that was enough to starve the thread pool and time
the Redis connection out, surfacing as failed catch-ups, lagging read models and failed grain
registrations although no replay ever ran. The answer now comes from memory. No migration is needed;
one optional setting is new.

### Fixed

- **No path waits on Redis to learn whether a replay is active.** The Redis-backed replay state answers
 `IsReplayActive` from a field. A change made in the host itself is seen there at once; a change made
 elsewhere — a replay that began or ended in another host, or a marking that lapsed — is announced over
 a channel beside the replay-request channel and seen within its latency, and every host re-reads the
 marking every `ProjectionReplay:RefreshSeconds` regardless, as the safety net for a lost announcement.
 The Orleans execution model's command dispatcher, bundle dispatcher, store readers and drain, and the
 bus dispatchers, make no Redis call for it any more. Nothing changes for a host without Redis, whose
 state was in process already, nor for a host that registers its own `IProjectionReplayState`.

### Added

- **`ProjectionReplayOptions.RefreshSeconds`** (default 5), read from the `ProjectionReplay` section
 like the lease. It bounds how long a host answers from a replay marking that changed elsewhere where the
 announcement was lost. Refused when the host starts at zero or below, and at or above
 `LeaseSeconds`, with an `OptionsValidationException` naming `ProjectionReplay:RefreshSeconds`.
- **Log events `104_015` to `104_018`.** A host that cannot refresh the replay marking from Redis says
 so once at Warning (`104_015`) and keeps its last answer; `104_016` at Information says it reads the
 marking again. A host that cannot subscribe to the marking's announcements says so once at Warning
 (`104_017`), sees a change on the refresh period only, and `104_018` says it is subscribed again.

### Changed

- **A host that cannot reach Redis keeps its last answer about the replay.** Before, every dispatch and
 every catch-up on such a host failed with the connection's exception. Now they proceed on what the host
 last learned — initially that no replay is active — and the loss is logged once. The replay stays
 correct regardless: on the Orleans execution model the readers are paused by the rebuild and the
 replay themselves, and apply the store from the beginning once more when the replay ends.
- **Rolling upgrade.** A host on a release before this one announces nothing when it starts or ends a
 replay, so a host on this release sees that replay at the refresh period rather than at once. The
 marking, its key and its lease are unchanged, so the two releases share one replay state.