UKBatch.Transport.Http 0.1.4-alpha

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This is a prerelease version of UKBatch.Transport.Http.
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dotnet add package UKBatch.Transport.Http --version 0.1.4-alpha
                    


                    

                
NuGet\Install-Package UKBatch.Transport.Http -Version 0.1.4-alpha
This command is intended to be used within the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, as it uses the NuGet module's version of Install-Package. 
<PackageReference Include="UKBatch.Transport.Http" Version="0.1.4-alpha" />
For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package. 
<PackageVersion Include="UKBatch.Transport.Http" Version="0.1.4-alpha" />
                    


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<PackageReference Include="UKBatch.Transport.Http" />
                    


                            Project file
For projects that support Central Package Management (CPM), copy this XML node into the solution Directory.Packages.props file to version the package. 
paket add UKBatch.Transport.Http --version 0.1.4-alpha
                    


                    

                
#r "nuget: UKBatch.Transport.Http, 0.1.4-alpha"
#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package. 
#:package UKBatch.Transport.Http@0.1.4-alpha
#:package directive can be used in C# file-based apps starting in .NET 10 preview 4. Copy this into a .cs file before any lines of code to reference the package. 
#addin nuget:?package=UKBatch.Transport.Http&version=0.1.4-alpha&prerelease
                    


                            Install as a Cake Addin
                        

                    

                
#tool nuget:?package=UKBatch.Transport.Http&version=0.1.4-alpha&prerelease
                    


                            Install as a Cake Tool

UKBatch.Transport.Http

A broker-free HTTP transport adapter for UKBatch — a lightweight, pluggable batch/job orchestration library for .NET 8 and .NET 10. It implements ITransport over HMAC-signed REST so a batch can dispatch a step to a different microservice as easily as a local step, with no message broker to run.

Status: part of the UKBatch 0.1.0-alpha package family. Same JobMessage / JobResult envelope as UKBatch.Transport.RabbitMQ — a different wire.

Install

dotnet add package UKBatch.Transport.Http

Quick start

Both sides register the transport; the secret and service registry bind from the UKBatch:Transport:Http configuration section.

Orchestrator (sender):

using UKBatch.AspNetCore;
using UKBatch.Transport.Http;

builder.AddUKBatchAspNetCore(b =>
{
    b.Configure(o => o.ThisServiceName = "orchestrator");
    b.AddBatch("invoice-pipeline", batch => batch
        .RunJob<PrepareOrderJob>()                                       // local
        .ThenRunJob("InvoiceProcessing", step => step.OnService("billing-worker")));  // remote
});

builder.Services.AddUKBatchHttpTransport();   // binds UKBatch:Transport:Http

Worker (receiver):

builder.AddUKBatchAspNetCore(b =>
{
    b.Configure(o => o.ThisServiceName = "billing-worker");
    b.AddJob<InvoiceProcessingJob>().Named("InvoiceProcessing");
});

builder.Services.AddUKBatchHttpTransport();

var app = builder.Build();
app.MapUKBatchHttpTransport();   // exposes /ukbatch/internal/jobs/{publish,poll,invoke}
app.Run();

The sender does not reference the worker's job assembly — only the job NAME is shared. The full sample is under samples/Sample.CrossServiceHttp.

Configuration

{
  "UKBatch": {
    "Transport": {
      "Http": {
        "SharedSecret": "<32+ bytes — env var / Key Vault in production>",
        "Services": {
          "billing-worker": { "BaseUrl": "http://billing-worker:5150" }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

SharedSecret is the HMAC key and is required whenever Services is non-empty (the validator enforces this). Receiver-only nodes have no outbound targets and leave Services empty.

HMAC SHA256 auth

Every request carries X-UKBatch-Signature, X-UKBatch-Timestamp, and X-UKBatch-Nonce. The signature is HMAC-SHA256 over a strict canonical envelope (method, canonical path, timestamp, nonce, body hash) that sender and receiver compute identically. Replay is blocked by an LRU nonce cache plus a clock-skew window (MaxClockSkew, default 5 min). Signature mismatch / missing header / nonce replay all return 401 ukbatch:transport-auth-failed (no information leak); clock-skew failures return 401 ukbatch:transport-clock-skew so legitimate NTP drift is diagnosable.

Resilience and limits

Each per-service HttpClient carries one Polly v8 pipeline (via Microsoft.Extensions.Http.Resilience): an outer wall-clock timeout, retry (default [2s, 5s, 15s] + jitter), a circuit breaker (5 failures per 30s → open 30s → half-open probe), and a per-attempt timeout. 4xx does not retry (a caller error wastes the budget); only HttpRequestException, 5xx, 408, and 503 do. Request bodies are capped at MaxBodyBytes (1 MB default) to bound HMAC body-hash CPU cost — keep your worker's Kestrel MaxRequestBodySize at or above it.

Critical notes

  • Service identity is required for outbound steps. Set UKBatchOptions.ThisServiceName (or env var UKBATCH_SERVICE_NAME); a cross-service step without it fails fast at dispatch with an actionable error.
  • The receiver mount path is fixed at /ukbatch/internal/jobs/* — not caller-configurable, so service-to-service discovery is unambiguous.
  • Cache-Control: no-store is set on every receiver response (even on a handler throw) so intermediaries never cache long-poll responses.
  • SharedSecret in plaintext appsettings.json is for dev/samples only — source it from an env var or a secret store in production.

When to use it

Choose this transport for cross-service dispatch when you want point-to-point request/reply without standing up a broker. If you need a stopped worker's message to wait durably until it restarts, use UKBatch.Transport.RabbitMQ instead — same envelope, broker-backed.

License

MIT. See LICENSE in the repo root. Full docs: UKBatch on GitHub.

Product Compatible and additional computed target framework versions.
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See https://github.com/nspukcode-hub/UKBatch/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md