Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore 4.0.3

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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. Each factory registration also registers the unit of work over its context — IWriteUnitOfWork for the write side, IProjectionsUnitOfWork / IReadUnitOfWork for the read side — unless the host registered its own. The write-side unit of work also draws on ISessionContextProvider and ISecureJsonSerializer, which AddSessionContext() and AddSecurity() provide (every worker composite applies both); with those in place, this is all the store needs from the host:

// 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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Three fixes to the same complaint: a host composed exactly as the documentation describes did not
start. Each one was a registration the composites assumed somebody else had made — a tracer, a unit
of work, a Redis connection — and each is now made by the registration that needs it. Nothing that
already worked changes: every fix defers to a registration the host makes itself, in either order,
so the lines a working host added to get past these gaps can simply be deleted. Additive on every
published surface.

### Fixed

- **A host without Redis starts and dispatches.** Every composite that carries a dispatcher
 registered the projection-replay state, and its only implementation took a Redis connection that
 no composite registers, so a host composed as documented failed at its first dispatch unless it
 also ran Redis and called `AddCaching()`. `AddProjectionReplayState()` now chooses at first
 resolution: with a registered `IConnectionMultiplexer` the Redis-backed state as before, without
 one an in-process state with the same lease semantics — and a warning, once at start-up
 (`104_012`), that replay coordination is confined to that process, so a replay requested there
 suppresses publication there only. A deployment whose replay must reach several hosts registers
 the shared connection, in either order. Redis-backed hosts observe no change.
- **Registering a store context now registers its unit of work.**
 `AddNpgsqlWriteDbContextFactory<T>()` registered the context factory, the context and the default
 connection resolver but not the `IWriteUnitOfWork` that the event source, the outbox dispatcher and
 the command worker take from the container — and nothing else in the published packages did, so a
 host composed exactly as documented failed at its first command with a dependency-injection error.
 The write registration now try-adds a scoped `IWriteUnitOfWork` over its context, and
 `AddNpgsqlReadDbContextFactory<T>()` try-adds `IProjectionsUnitOfWork` and `IReadUnitOfWork`
 likewise. A unit of work the host registers itself, before or after, is still the one used; a
 hand-written registration can simply be deleted.
- **`AddMediator()` no longer requires the host to register an OpenTelemetry `Tracer`.** The
 mediator traces every dispatch and obtained its tracer from the host, but nothing registered one,
 so a host that called `AddMediator()` and nothing else failed at the first resolve of `IMediator`.
 `AddMediator()` now registers a fallback that emits the dispatch spans from the framework's
 `Stratara.Application` activity source — a host that subscribes to framework telemetry sees them,
 a host that subscribes to nothing pays for nothing. A `Tracer` the host registers, before or after
 `AddMediator()`, is still the one used, so no existing host changes behaviour; the registration
 line can simply be deleted. The samples, the README and the package README no longer carry it.