Simple mediator implementation in .NET

In-process messaging with no dependencies.

Supports request/response, commands, queries, notifications and events, synchronous and async with intelligent dispatching via C# generic variance.

Examples in the wiki.

You should install MediatR with NuGet:

Install-Package MediatR

Or via the .NET Core command line interface:

dotnet add package MediatR

Either commands, from Package Manager Console or .NET Core CLI, will download and install MediatR and all required dependencies.

To reference only the contracts for MediatR, which includes:

• IRequest (including generic variants)
• INotification
• IStreamRequest

Add a package reference to MediatR.Contracts

This package is useful in scenarios where your MediatR contracts are in a separate assembly/project from handlers. Example scenarios include:

• API contracts
• GRPC contracts
• Blazor

MediatR supports Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.Abstractions directly. To register various MediatR services and handlers:

services.AddMediatR(cfg => cfg.RegisterServicesFromAssemblyContaining<Startup>());

or with an assembly:

services.AddMediatR(cfg => cfg.RegisterServicesFromAssembly(typeof(Startup).Assembly));

This registers:

• IMediator as transient
• ISender as transient
• IPublisher as transient
• IRequestHandler<,> concrete implementations as transient
• IRequestHandler<> concrete implementations as transient
• INotificationHandler<> concrete implementations as transient
• IStreamRequestHandler<> concrete implementations as transient
• IRequestPreProcessor<> concrete implementations as transient
• IRequestPostProcessor<,> concrete implementations as transient
• IRequestExceptionHandler<,,> concrete implementations as transient
• IRequestExceptionAction<,>) concrete implementations as transient

This also registers open generic implementations for:

• INotificationHandler<>
• IRequestPreProcessor<>
• IRequestPostProcessor<,>
• IRequestExceptionHandler<,,>
• IRequestExceptionAction<,>

To register behaviors:

services.AddMediatR(cfg => {
    cfg.RegisterServicesFromAssembly(typeof(Startup).Assembly);
    cfg.AddBehavior<IPipelineBehavior<Ping, Pong>, PingPongBehavior>();
    cfg.AddOpenBehavior(typeof(GenericBehavior<,>));
    });