Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore
4.0.3
Prefix Reserved
dotnet add package Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore --version 4.0.3
NuGet\Install-Package Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore -Version 4.0.3
<PackageReference Include="Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore" Version="4.0.3" />
<PackageVersion Include="Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore" Version="4.0.3" />
<PackageReference Include="Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore" />
paket add Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore --version 4.0.3
#r "nuget: Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore, 4.0.3"
#:package Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore@4.0.3
#addin nuget:?package=Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore&version=4.0.3
#tool nuget:?package=Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore&version=4.0.3
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 theg) through 3.1.x.AddNpgsqlWriteDbContextFactoryreplaced 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 theg; 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;Unhealthywhen the database cannot be reached.AddOutboxHealthCheck(degradedThreshold?, unhealthyThreshold?)— reports the pending outbox backlog under thependingdata key and escalates toDegraded/Unhealthywhen 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 byProjectionsUnitOfWork.Stratara.Shared— for diagnostics + abstractions + resilience.Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL,EFCore.NamingConventions,Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.EntityFrameworkCore,Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore,Microsoft.Extensions.Diagnostics.HealthChecks,Pgvector.EntityFrameworkCore.
| 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
- EFCore.NamingConventions (>= 10.0.1)
- Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.EntityFrameworkCore (>= 10.0.11)
- Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore (>= 10.0.11)
- Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection (>= 10.0.11)
- Microsoft.Extensions.Diagnostics.HealthChecks (>= 10.0.11)
- Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting (>= 10.0.11)
- Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL (>= 10.0.3)
- Pgvector.EntityFrameworkCore (>= 0.3.0)
- Stratara.Projections (>= 4.0.3)
- Stratara.Shared (>= 4.0.3)
NuGet packages (3)
Showing the top 3 NuGet packages that depend on Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore:
| Package | Downloads |
|---|---|
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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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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. |
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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. |
GitHub repositories
This package is not used by any popular GitHub repositories.
| Version | Downloads | Last Updated |
|---|---|---|
| 4.0.3 | 41 | 9/3/2026 |
| 4.0.2 | 136 | 9/3/2026 |
| 4.0.1 | 94 | 9/2/2026 |
| 4.0.0 | 150 | 8/31/2026 |
| 4.0.0-preview.1 | 56 | 8/31/2026 |
| 3.4.0 | 146 | 8/28/2026 |
| 3.3.0 | 119 | 8/25/2026 |
| 3.2.3 | 132 | 8/22/2026 |
| 3.2.2 | 126 | 8/14/2026 |
| 3.2.1 | 131 | 8/2/2026 |
| 3.2.0 | 153 | 7/18/2026 |
| 3.1.7 | 329 | 7/1/2026 |
| 3.1.6 | 568 | 6/22/2026 |
| 3.1.5 | 156 | 6/22/2026 |
| 3.1.4 | 164 | 6/15/2026 |
| 3.1.3 | 153 | 6/10/2026 |
| 3.1.2 | 168 | 6/5/2026 |
| 3.1.1 | 233 | 6/1/2026 |
| 3.1.0 | 137 | 5/30/2026 |
| 3.0.23 | 141 | 5/28/2026 |
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.