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Rebus Pub Sub: Retrieve headers on subscriber


Headers are published with Azure Service Bus, like below:

 string content = "body";
 await _busPublisher.Activator.Bus.Publish(content, headers);

How to retrieve both header and content on subscriber?

class Handler :  IHandleMessages<string>
    {

    public Handler(IMessageContext messageContext, ILog log)
    {
        _messageContext = messageContext;
        _log = log;
    }

        public async Task Handle(string message)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Handle(string message): {0}", message);

        }
    }

Update

Below is one solution. Is this the best solution?

        public Handler(IMessageContext messageContext, ILog log)
    {
        _messageContext = messageContext;
        _log = log;
    }
            public async Task Handle(string message)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Handle(string message): {0} ", message);
                Console.WriteLine("headers: {0} ", string.Join(' ', _messageContext.Headers));

            }

When a Handler is instantiated like below, is it possible to use dependency injection instead?

        var Activator = new BuiltinHandlerActivator();

        Activator.Register((mc) =>
            {
                return new Handler(mc, log);  //no new?

            }

Solution

  • Accepted IMessageContext injected into the constructor of your handler is the way to go:

    public class Handler : IHandleMessages<string>
    {
        readonly IMessageContext messageContext;
    
        public Handler(IMessageContext messageContext, ILog log)
        {
            this.messageContext = messageContext;
        }
    
        public async Task Handle(string message)
        {
            var headers = messageContext.Headers;
    
            // do stuff
        }
    }
    

    If you're using BuiltinHandlerActivator, you can have it injected like this:

    activator.Register(context => new Handler(context));
    

    or if you also need the IBus in your handler:

    activator.Register((bus, context) => new Handler(bus, context));