feat: transaction scope shared by every DAO call on the current async flow - #303
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… flow DaoTransactionScope.Begin opens one context and transaction and publishes them through an AsyncLocal holder; Dao operations resolve the ambient context when a scope is active and fresh contexts otherwise. Disposing without committing rolls everything back. The slot stores a mutable holder because an AsyncLocal written inside DisposeAsync never reaches the caller's flow - nulling the holder's field does. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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WalkthroughAdded ChangesAmbient DAO transactions
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to This PR makes DAO context selection ambient across an asynchronous flow, but nested scopes can let writes escape an outer transaction and parallel child flows can share one DbContext, causing partial commits or runtime failures. The implementation should be corrected before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant DaoTransactionScope
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Caller->>DaoTransactionScope: Begin()
DaoTransactionScope->>Database: Create context and begin transaction
DaoTransactionScope->>AmbientDbContext: Attach context
Caller->>Dao: Execute DAO operation
Dao->>AmbientDbContext: Resolve current context
Dao->>Database: Read or write through transaction context
Caller->>DaoTransactionScope: CommitAsync() or dispose
DaoTransactionScope->>Database: Commit or roll back
DaoTransactionScope->>AmbientDbContext: Clear context
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In `@src/NosCore.Dao/DaoTransactionScope.cs`:
- Line 51: Update the transaction-scope flow around AmbientDbContext.Attach and
DisposeAsync to handle nesting safely: either reject creation of a nested scope
when an ambient holder already exists, or retain and restore the parent holder
when the inner scope is disposed. Ensure subsequent DAO writes continue using
the outer transaction context.
- Line 34: Update DaoTransactionScope.Begin and the
AmbientDbContext/Dao.ResolveContext flow to prevent child tasks created after
Begin from concurrently sharing one DbContext; choose and consistently implement
a policy such as serializing access, rejecting parallel use, or preventing
ambient-state propagation. Add a regression test that begins the scope before
launching parallel tasks and verifies the selected policy.
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| public static Holder Attach(DbContext context) | ||
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EF Core does not support multiple parallel operations on the same DbContext instance, regardless of how tasks are managed or AsyncLocal flow is configured [1][2][3]. Key points regarding this limitation: 1. Thread Safety and Concurrency: A DbContext instance is not thread-safe and is designed to handle only one operation at a time [4][3][5]. Attempting to perform concurrent operations (e.g., executing two queries in parallel) on the same instance will result in an InvalidOperationException [6][4][7]. This error occurs because EF Core uses internal state (including a ConcurrencyDetector) that cannot track multiple simultaneous operations [6][4][8]. 2. AsyncLocal Propagation: In.NET, AsyncLocal stores data in the ExecutionContext, which automatically flows to child tasks (such as those created by Task.Run) [9][10][11]. If you use AsyncLocal to manage a DbContext (for example, to make it ambiently available), that reference will be visible to any child tasks spawned within that execution flow [9]. However, this does not make the DbContext instance thread-safe; it simply means multiple tasks might inadvertently access the same non-thread-safe object [5]. 3. Proper Handling: - Do not attempt to run parallel operations on a single DbContext [2][3]. - Ensure all asynchronous calls to the DbContext are awaited [1][3]. - If parallel execution is required, you must use separate DbContext instances for each operation [1][2][8]. Because EF Core's restriction is based on the internal design of the DbContext class itself, configuring AsyncLocal to hide or flow the context does not resolve the underlying concurrency limitation [4][2][5]. The official recommendation is to avoid concurrent use entirely [1][3].
Citations:
- 1: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.entityframeworkcore.dbcontext.savechangesasync?view=efcore-9.0
- 2: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43496608/avoid-entity-framework-error-with-multiple-tasks-running-concurrently-on-same-db
- 3: https://github.com/dotnet/efcore/blob/a09fe49332fe3611a7558d09b5f29fb5ea39a666/src/EFCore/DbContext.cs
- 4: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60570027/a-second-operation-started-on-this-context-ef-core-3-1-concurrency-breaking-ch
- 5: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44063832/what-is-the-best-practice-in-ef-core-for-using-parallel-async-calls-with-an-inje
- 6: GitHub issue 31890 in dotnet/efcore (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 7: GitHub issue 28589 in dotnet/efcore (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 8: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52856515/parallel-ef-core-queries-with-dbcontext-injection-in-asp-net-core
- 9: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43814346/why-does-asynclocalt-propagate-to-child-threads-whereas-threadlocalt-does-no
- 10: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79248199/does-executioncontext-always-flow-into-a-task-run-or-a-parallel-foreach
- 11: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.threading.asynclocal-1?view=net-8.0
Prevent concurrent child flows from using one DbContext.
When parallel DAO operations start after Begin(), child tasks inherit the same AmbientDbContext.Holder. Dao.ResolveContext() then returns the same DbContext to both operations. EF Core does not support concurrent operations on one context, so the operations may fail with InvalidOperationException.
Define a concurrent-child-flow policy. Serialize DAO access, reject parallel use, or prevent ambient-state propagation. Add a regression test that creates parallel tasks after beginning the scope. The current test begins the scope after Task.Yield() and does not test inherited scope state.
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In `@src/NosCore.Dao/DaoTransactionScope.cs` at line 34, Update
DaoTransactionScope.Begin and the AmbientDbContext/Dao.ResolveContext flow to
prevent child tasks created after Begin from concurrently sharing one DbContext;
choose and consistently implement a policy such as serializing access, rejecting
parallel use, or preventing ambient-state propagation. Add a regression test
that begins the scope before launching parallel tasks and verifies the selected
policy.
Child tasks spawned inside a scope inherit the ambient holder and EF contexts do not tolerate concurrent use, so leased operations now queue on a per-scope semaphore; disposal takes the same lock to wait out an in-flight operation. Begin throws when a scope is already active on the flow instead of silently replacing it, which previously left later operations outside the outer transaction. Lazy sync queries keep resolving without the lock since their enumeration outlives it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Moves the atomic-save transaction machinery from NosCoreIO/NosCore#2356 into the package, next to
IDaowhere it belongs.IDaoTransactionScope/IDaoTransaction:Begin()opens one context + transaction; commit or the dispose rolls everything backDaoresolves the ambient context when a scope is active on the current async flow, fresh contexts otherwise — consumers need no container tricksBegin()is synchronous (an AsyncLocal written inside an awaited method doesn't flow back to the caller); the slot holds a mutable holder so disposal is visible to the caller's flow too — the naïve clear-in-DisposeAsync version left later operations on a disposed context, and the new test suite caught exactly thatVersion 5.0.0 → 5.1.0 (additive). 63/63 tests pass.
Once merged + tagged, NosCoreIO/NosCore#2356 slims down to
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