Basic extension model in Rebus: Injectionist

The new Rebus (i.e. “Rebus 2”, which is currently available from version 0.90.* on NuGet) is very easy to extend, due to the fact that the configuration API is backed by a very simple IoC-like container: the “Injectionist“.

The Injectionist is based on a simple general principle: For each type of service that you register (e.g. ISubscriptionStorage), you are allowed to register ONE primary implementation of that service (e.g. SqlServerSubscriptionStorage), and any number of decorators to that service (e.g. CachingSubscriptionStorage, etc.).

All registrations in the Injectionist are functions that must return objects – so for example to register our subscription storage example from above, we would do it like this:

and then, since the RebusBus instance is registered like this:

the configuration API can end up calling injectionist.Get<IBus>() in order to build a bus instance with the chosen implementations of the various abstractions.

In addition to making it easy to gradually build a configuration, the Injectionist enables YOU to intercept almost anything by registering your own decorators…

Want to mutate incoming/outgoing messages? There’s several ways of doing that, but one way would be to register a decorator for the ISerializer interface.

Want to measure the time it takes to dispatch a message? Again, there’s several ways to do that, but one way could be to decorate the IPipelineInvoker interface.

And so on 🙂

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