FluxFlow.Components.Control 3.0.1

FluxFlow.Components.Control

Standalone expression-driven control nodes for FluxFlow. They depend only on FluxFlow.Nodes and FluxFlow.Mapping — no engine, registry, or runtime. You new a node and LinkTo the next one.

Nodes

Every message travels as a FlowMessage<T> envelope. FilterNode re-broadcasts the surviving FlowMessage<TInput> on Output; WhenNode fans the original message to WhenTrue (its primary Output) or WhenFalse. The routed message carries the same correlation id as the input.

The package does not choose an expression language: each node takes an IFlowExpressionEngine directly and compiles its predicate once at construction, evaluating only the compiled form per message.

var options = new ControlExpressionOptions
{
    Expression = "value > 10",
    ExpressionId = "route-v1",
    ExpressionName = "route-important",
    InputType = "int"
};

await using var when = new WhenNode<int>(options, appExpressionEngine);

when.WhenTrue.LinkTo(highSink, new DataflowLinkOptions { PropagateCompletion = false });
when.WhenFalse.LinkTo(lowSink, new DataflowLinkOptions { PropagateCompletion = false });

await when.Input.SendAsync(FlowMessage.Create(42));

FilterNode works the same way:

await using var filter = new FilterNode<int>(
    new ControlExpressionOptions { Expression = "value % 2 == 0", InputType = "int" },
    appExpressionEngine);

filter.Output.LinkTo(evenSink, new DataflowLinkOptions { PropagateCompletion = false });
await filter.Input.SendAsync(FlowMessage.Create(2));

Expression-backed constructors require a non-empty Expression, non-empty InputType, and BoundedCapacity greater than zero. Invalid options fail fast during node construction before the input pipeline is created.

Custom mapping context

By default the predicate sees the payload as the input and value variables. Pass an IFlowMapContextFactory<TInput> to shape the variables an expression engine evaluates against:

var node = new FilterNode<AppMessage>(options, appExpressionEngine, new AppMessageContextFactory());

You can also supply an already-compiled IFlowPredicate<TInput> directly when you do not want the node to own compilation:

var node = new WhenNode<int>(options, myPredicate, engineName: "my-engine");

The compiled-predicate constructors do not require Expression, but they still validate InputType and BoundedCapacity because those values drive diagnostics and queue sizing.

Behavior

Expression-evaluation failures emit a FlowError on Errors (carrying the input's correlation id and a Code from ControlErrorCodes) and the node keeps processing later messages. Per-message diagnostics — flow.filter.passed / flow.filter.rejected / flow.filter.failed and flow.when.routed / flow.when.failed (see ControlDiagnosticNames) — flow on the Events port with input type, engine, expression id, expression name, route, and pass/fail metadata where available.

Runtime timing

Error and event timestamps use the node's clock (default TimeProvider.System). Provide a deterministic clock for tests:

new FilterNode<int>(options, engine, clock: new FakeTimeProvider(timestamp));

Composition

Add FluxFlow.Components.Control.Composition when a host wants to instantiate control nodes from FluxFlow.Composition fluent/config definitions. That optional package registers closed generic FilterNode<TInput> and WhenNode<TInput> factories.

services.AddKeyedSingleton<IFlowExpressionEngine>("default", expressionEngine);

services
    .AddFluxFlowComposition(configuration)
    .RegisterNodes(registry => registry
        .RegisterFilter<AppMessage>()
        .RegisterWhen<AppMessage>());

Use custom node type names when one host needs several input shapes:

registry
    .RegisterFilter<OrderMessage>("flow.filter.order")
    .RegisterWhen<HttpResponseOutput>("flow.when.http-response");

Composition resolves the expression engine from the keyed engine resource. Optional keyed contextFactory and clock resources can provide custom expression variables and deterministic diagnostics. The configured InputType remains diagnostic metadata; CLR port types come from the closed generic registration. Invalid ControlExpressionOptions, such as a missing expression, blank inputType, or non-positive boundedCapacity, fail during composition build and surface as factory diagnostics when build failures are configured as diagnostics.