Combine to Whens in Automatonymous state machine

Question

I am making a Request from MassTransit state machine saga and wait for reply.

But there could be two errors coming back to me:

• MyRequest.TimeoutExpired
• MyRequest.Faulted

I don't care on which conditions the request was not fulfilled, I want both situations to result in an error message to be published.

However, I could not find any way to combine two outcomes with or condition, so I can have one handling case for both outcomes and not copy-paste my code.

Answer 1

In this case, you should either create a custom activity (advanced, probably not necessary) or just create a method that is called from both When() conditions, so that you can reuse the behavior between statements.

Task PublishEvent(BehaviorContext<TInstance> context)
{
    var consumeContext = context.GetPayload<ConsumeContext>();

    return consumeContext.Publish(new MyEvent(...));
}

{
    During(MyRequest.Pending,
        When(MyRequest.Completed)
            .ThenAsync(PublishEvent),
        When(MyRequest.Faulted)
            .ThenAsync(PublishEvent));
}