NServiceBus Endpoint Routing Injection - nservicebus

I am trying to inject my own IRouteMessagesToEndpoints in NServiceBus with structure map as I need to redirect various messages to different endpoints depending on some business logic (not via namespace/assembly/type). This would allow it to fire using bus.Send(); and be configured to our requirements. I thought this was possible, but I can't seem to get it to work. I have tried using the Configure.Component() and ObjectFactory.Configure() for the injection, and both run without any exception, but when I debug my implementation of the interface the breakpoint does not hit.
My question is, can it be done this way (there's nothing on the internet that covers this)? I notice that the EndPointRouter in the GatewayReceiver has a setter, but I cannot work out how to access the property.

Unfortunately, even though IRouteMessagesToEndpoints is a public interface at the moment is not possible to replace the default implementation, sorry!
Please raise an issue about it in https://github.com/Particular/NServiceBus.Gateway/issues/new so we can discuss it better.

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#RepositoryEventHandler only invoked via HTTP - why?

when I use a #RepositoryEventHandler then its methods are only invoked when the call into the repository comes in via HTTP.
Any reason why? OK, it is called Spring Data REST, but wouldn't it be VERY useful to invoke the handler too, when I call my Repo directly, not via HTTP?
Any way to invoke the handler when called directly (some magic AOP-stuff)?
Thank you
The reason for that is that the different persistence mechanisms covered by the different Spring Data modules already ship with event mechanisms. Depending on the one you use you now get a different mechanism to use.
Unfortunately this can't be unified as e.g. with JPA not all persistence operations need to go through the repository in the first place, as JPA automatically flushes all changes that were made to an attached instance on EntityManager flush. In this case even AOP on the repository instance doesn't help.
So you're basically left with two choices:
The events exposed by Spring Data REST for all repositories (as we basically don't make use of the automatic change tracking in JPA).
The store specific event mechanisms that will make sure that the persistence mechanism exposes events as documented.
I don't know if the solution I put below from other stackoverflow questions would seen as acceptable by #Olivier-drotbohm, but from:
SpringDataRest #RepositoryEventHandler not running when Controller is added
and
#RepositoryEventHandler events stop with #RepositoryRestController
you could inject/autowire the "ApplicationEventPublisher" and fire the BeforeCreateEvent/AfterCreateEvent manually to trigger the RepositoryEventHandler.
This is not a perfect solution, but I hope it is good enough for you (and we tested it: it works).

Add data persistence to WCF Service

I'm in charge of a WCF service. Our client has requested an override feature: If a call is resubmitted, allow the operation to proceed despite warnings. I need a way to persist data from recent calls so I can detect a resubmission. I thought making the service durable, part of WF3, would resolve the problem; however, my service uses .NET 4.5 which marks WF3 as obsolete. I've been trying to find the WF4 equivalent, but nothing's clicked for me. All the examples presume a workflow which I lack.
What is the best solution for my needs?
Edit:
According to this question, a static variable should meet my needs, but I haven't been able to get one to persist between calls.
A static variable did meet my needs.
I used a property to interact with my static variable, and in the getter I would remove some of the old data. For some reason, having that call in the getter prevented the static variable from persisting. I relocated the clean up code (incidentally I didn't need the property anymore), and the static variable persisted.

Unable to access the service instance from within an implementation of IDataContractSurrogate

this is my first post, and I really have tried hard to find an answer, but am drawing a blank thus far.
My implementation of IDataContractSurrogate creates surrogates for certain 'cached' objects which I maintain (this works fine). What doesn't work is that in order for this system to operate effectively, it needs to access the service instance for some properties of the instance which it is maintaining from the interaction with its client. Also, when my implementation of IDataContractSurrogate works in its 'client mode' it needs access to the properties of the client instance in a similar way. Access to the information from the client and service instance affects how I create my surrogate types (or rather SHOULD do if I can answer this question!)
My service instancing is PerSession and concurrent.
On the server side, calls to GetDataContractType and GetDeserializedObject contain a valid OperationContext.Current from which I can of course retreive the service instance. However on the client side, none of the calls yield an OperationContext.Current. We are still in an operation as I am translating the surrogate types to the data contract types after they have been sent from the server as part of its response to the client request so I would have expected one? Maybe the entire idea of using OperationContext.Current from outside of an Operation invocation is wrong?
So, moving on, and trying to fix this problem I have examined the clientRuntime/dispatchRuntime object which is available when applying my customer behaviour, however that doesn't appear to give me any form of access to the client instance, unless I have a message reference perhaps... and then calling InstanceProvider. However I don't have the message.
Another idea I had was to use IInstanceProvider myself and then maybe build up a dictionary of all the ones which are dished out... but that's no good because I don't appear to have access to any session related piece of information from within my implementation of IDataContractSurrogate to use as a dictionary key.
I had originally implemented my own serializer but thats not what I want. I'm happy with the built in serializer, and changing the objects to special surrogates is exactly what I need to do, with the added bonus that every child property comes in for inspection.
I have also looked at applying a service behavior, but that also does not appear to yield a service instance, and also does not let me set a Surrogate implementation property.
I simply do not know how to gain access to the current session/instance from within my implementation IDataContractSurrogate. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
Sean
I have solved my problem. The short answer is that I implemented IClientMessageFormatter and IDispatchMessageFormatter to accomplish what I needed. Inside SerializeReply I could always access the ServiceInstance as OperationContext.Current is valid. It was more work as I had to implement my own serialization and deserialization, but works flawlessly. The only issue remaining would be that there is no way to get the client proxy which is processing the response, but so far that is not a show stopper for me.

Passing client context using Unity in WCF service application

I have a WCF service application (actually, it uses WCF Web API preview 5) that intercepts each request and extracts several header values passed from the client. The idea is that the 'interceptor' will extract these values and setup a ClientContext object that is then globally available within the application for the duration of the request. The server is stateless, so the context is per-call.
My problem is that the application uses IoC (Unity) for dependency injection so there is no use of singleton's, etc. Any class that needs to use the context receives it via DI.
So, how do I 'dynamically' create a new context object for each request and make sure that it is used by the container for the duration of that request? I also need to be sure that it is completely thread-safe in that each request is truly using the correct instance.
UPDATE
So I realize as I look into the suggestions below that part of my problem is encapsulation. The idea is that the interface used for the context (IClientContext) contains only read-only properties so that the rest of the application code doesn't have the ability to make changes. (And in a team development environment, if the code allows it, someone will inevitably do it.)
As a result, in my message handler that intercepts the request, I can get an instance of the type implementing the interface from the container but I can't make use of it. I still want to only expose a read-only interface to all other code but need a way to set the property values. Any ideas?
I'm considering implementing two interfaces, one that provides read-only access and one that allows me to initialize the instance. Or casting the resolved object to a type that allows me to set the values. Unfortunately, this isn't fool-proof either but unless someone has a better idea, it might be the best I can do.
Read Andrew Oakley's Blog on WCF specific lifetime managers. He creates a UnityOperationContextLifetimeManager:
we came up with the idea to build a Unity lifetime manager tied to
WCF's OperationContext. That way, our container objects would live
only for the lifetime of the request...
Configure your context class with that lifetime manager and then just resolve it. It should give you an "operation singleton".
Sounds like you need a Unity LifetimeManager. See this SO question or this MSDN article.

Generic WCF Routing/Forwarding/Proxy Server

Is it possible to create a "generic" as in "adaptable" routing service, which will NOT have any public methods to call. Instead, you'd be able to call any command, which would then be mapped in the service and will pass it to appropriate end point with simple message transformation where required.
It may be hard to understand and idea might seem a bit crazy (it came from a colleague of mine), but it's clearer if you look at the example:
similar to what's described in this article, only difference is that our service should not have a "SubmitTimeSheet" public method, in fact it should have no public methods to call. We'd have to "intercept" an incoming call on a much lower level before it returns "Method Not Found" error.
Is this at all possible? The reason for this is obvious: possibility of adding new clients without having to change the code. All we'd have to do is to add a new mapping entry in some sort of config file or even database, e.g.
<Client address="newClientAddress" method="DoAnything" transformation="NewClientDoAnything.xslt" endPoint="endPointClientAddress" endPointMethod="endPointClientDoAnything" />
Check out WCF 4 routing - supports content based routing, xpath transforms and much more.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/routingrules/
They have already done it in Nirvana. But it is very expensive.
This is not possible in WCF unless you define your contract as a very loose, fit-for-all contract which takes a message and returns a message. By doing this, you will los all the goodness (although not huge goodness in WCF) of WCF.