MediatR.Plugins

Super simple, handy plugins for MediatR.

Install

PM> Install-Package MediatR.Plugins

Behaviors

• Logging behavior
  • Log4net
  • Serilog
• Validation behavior (with FluentValidation)
• Caching behavior

Logging

The logging behavior will log:

• Error severity:
  • If an exception was thrown in handler
• Debug severity:
  • Pre processing: Handling {typeof(TRequest)}, traceId: {GUID} {timestamp}
  • Post processing: Handled {typeof(TRequest)}, traceId: {GUID} {timestamp}

Log4net

Setup

Log4netLoggingBehavior obviously depends on Log4net, so an ILog needs to be configured in your IoC/DI.

Then simply register the Log4netLogginBehavior in your IoC/DI container as well. Structuremap example:

var container = new Container(cfg =>
{
    ...
    For<ILog>().Use(Log4netInstance);
    cfg.For(typeof(IPipelineBehavior<,>)).Add(typeof(Log4netLoggingBehavior<,>));
});

Serilog

Setup

SerilogLoggingBehavior obviously depends on Serilog, so an ILogger needs to be configured in your IoC/DI.

Then simply register the SerilogLoggingBehavior in your IoC/DI container as well. Structuremap example:

var container = new Container(cfg =>
{
    ...
    For<ILogger>().Use(SerilogInstance);
    cfg.For(typeof(IPipelineBehavior<,>)).Add(typeof(SerilogLoggingBehavior<,>));
});

Validation

Setup

No additional setup is required to use the validation behavior, even though it relies on FluentValidation. I choosed to design this as decoupled as posible from the users IoC/DI framework as possible. So the only setup needed is to register the pipeline behavior:

var container = new Container(cfg =>
{
    ...
    cfg.For(typeof(IPipelineBehavior<,>)).Add(typeof(ValidationBehavior<,>));
});

Example

A validatable request needs to implement IValidatableRequest:

public class Request : IValidatableRequest<Result>
{
  public Request(int value)
  {
    Value = value;
  }

  public int Value { get; set; }
  public ValidationResult Validate() => new Validator().Validate(this);
}

public class Validator : AbstractValidator<Request>
{
    public Validator()
    {
        RuleFor(x => x.Value)
            .GreaterThan(10)
            .LessThan(20);
    }
}

The IValidatableRequest is an IRequest with a Validate() method on top of it that is used by the pipeline behavior to do the validation, without having to do IoC/DI framework specific scanning to figure out which validator to use.

Caching behavior

Why caching responses

The reason why I felt the need of caching responses is that I was writing an application that needs to be extremely fast performing and that my handlers that I needed to cache was of pure I/O calculators. No external dependencies (e.g. lookups to database).

I did know for sure that given a set of parameters, I knew that the response would be exactly the same every time it was invoked. Hence caching is safe.

Before you start caching responses

Before starting using a caching behavior of your request, make sure that you know exactly why you want to cache, what you want to cache and most importantly how to figure out unique caching keys. If caching keys are not generated properly, the caching behavior is a very dangerous feature to rely on.

That being said the caching behavior is safely implemented and you are fully responsible and in control of cache validation checks, which caching provider to use etc.

Setup

The caching behavior pipeline depends on an ICacheProvider and an ICacheLogger. The caching itself is not done itself in the pipeline, but are left to the user to implement using the ICacheProvider. So whether you want to cache using a Dictionary, Redis, distributed cache, runtime cache or whatever - its up to you.

Same goes for the ICacheLogger, just implement the Debug method to (preferrably) decorate your favorite logging framework of choice.

var container = new Container(cfg =>
{
    ...
    For<ICacheLogger>().Use(CacheLoggerInstance);
    For<ICacheProvider>().Use(CacheProviderInstance);
    cfg.For(typeof(IPipelineBehavior<,>)).Add(typeof(SerilogLoggingBehavior<,>));
});

Logging

The caching behavior pipeline will log with Debug severity when:

• Retrieve from cache
• Adding to cache

Example

A cachable request needs to be of type ICachableRequest which is an IRequest with a GetCacheKey() method on top of it. This is where you should implement your request-unique cache key generator.

public class CachablePing
{
    public class Handler : IRequestHandler<Request, Result>
    {
        public Task<Result> Handle(Request request, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            return Task.FromResult(new Result
            {
                Value = Math.Pow(request.Value, 2),
                ProcessedTicks = DateTime.UtcNow.Ticks
            });
        }
    }

    public class Request : ICachableRequest<Result>
    {
        public double Value { get; set; }

        public string GetCacheKey()
        {
            return Value.ToString();
        }
    }

    public class Result
    {
        public double Value { get; set; }
        public long ProcessedTicks { get; set; }
    }
}

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2017 Victor Alveflo

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