Stratara.EventSourcing.EntityFrameworkCore 4.4.2

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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 types are mapped for a model that has vector columns; a model without them runs on a plain PostgreSQL server, no vector extension needed. 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 (4)

Showing the top 4 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, and AddCommandServices, AddEventProjectionServices and AddSagaServices without the bus-fed workers) 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.

Stratara.Orleans.EntityFrameworkCore

Entity Framework Core persistence for the Stratara Orleans execution model — the commit-order readers (native PostgreSQL and a portable per-partition counter), the projection checkpoint store and the store-schema additions they need.

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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.