Release v2.0.0 with AWS cloud support.

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SourceFlow.Net v2.0.0 - Changelog

Release Date: TBC
Status: In Development

Note: This release includes AWS cloud integration support. Azure cloud integration will be available in a future release.

🎉 Major Changes

Cloud Core Consolidation

The SourceFlow.Cloud.Core project has been consolidated into the main SourceFlow package. This architectural change simplifies the dependency structure and reduces the number of separate packages required for cloud integration.

Benefits:

• ✅ Simplified package management (one less NuGet package)
• ✅ Reduced build complexity
• ✅ Improved discoverability (cloud functionality is part of core)
• ✅ Better performance (eliminates one layer of assembly loading)
• ✅ Easier testing (no intermediate package dependencies)

✨ New Features

Integrated Cloud Functionality

The following components are now part of the core SourceFlow package:

Configuration

• BusConfiguration - Fluent API for routing configuration
• IBusBootstrapConfiguration - Bootstrapper integration
• ICommandRoutingConfiguration - Command routing abstraction
• IEventRoutingConfiguration - Event routing abstraction
• IIdempotencyService - Duplicate message detection
• InMemoryIdempotencyService - Default implementation
• IdempotencyConfigurationBuilder - Fluent API for idempotency configuration

Resilience

• ICircuitBreaker - Circuit breaker pattern interface
• CircuitBreaker - Implementation with state management
• CircuitBreakerOptions - Configuration options
• CircuitBreakerOpenException - Exception for open circuits
• CircuitBreakerStateChangedEventArgs - State transition events

Security

• IMessageEncryption - Message encryption abstraction
• SensitiveDataAttribute - Marks properties for encryption
• SensitiveDataMasker - Automatic log masking
• EncryptionOptions - Encryption configuration

Dead Letter Processing

• IDeadLetterProcessor - Failed message handling
• IDeadLetterStore - Failed message persistence
• DeadLetterRecord - Failed message model
• InMemoryDeadLetterStore - Default implementation

Observability

• CloudActivitySource - OpenTelemetry activity source
• CloudMetrics - Standard cloud metrics
• CloudTelemetry - Centralized telemetry

Serialization

• PolymorphicJsonConverter - Handles inheritance hierarchies

Idempotency Configuration Builder

New fluent API for configuring idempotency services:

// Entity Framework-based (multi-instance)
var idempotencyBuilder = new IdempotencyConfigurationBuilder()
    .UseEFIdempotency(connectionString, cleanupIntervalMinutes: 60);

// In-memory (single-instance)
var idempotencyBuilder = new IdempotencyConfigurationBuilder()
    .UseInMemory();

// Custom implementation
var idempotencyBuilder = new IdempotencyConfigurationBuilder()
    .UseCustom<MyCustomIdempotencyService>();

// Apply configuration
idempotencyBuilder.Build(services);

Builder Methods:

• UseEFIdempotency(connectionString, cleanupIntervalMinutes) - Entity Framework-based (requires SourceFlow.Stores.EntityFramework package)
• UseInMemory() - In-memory implementation
• UseCustom<TImplementation>() - Custom implementation by type
• UseCustom(factory) - Custom implementation with factory function

Enhanced AWS Integration

AWS cloud extension now supports explicit idempotency configuration:

services.UseSourceFlowAws(
    options => { options.Region = RegionEndpoint.USEast1; },
    bus => bus.Send.Command<CreateOrderCommand>(q => q.Queue("orders.fifo")),
    configureIdempotency: services =>
    {
        services.AddSourceFlowIdempotency(connectionString);
    });

📚 Documentation Updates

New Documentation

• Cloud Core Consolidation Guide - Complete migration guide
• Cloud Message Idempotency Guide - Comprehensive idempotency setup guide

Updated Documentation

• SourceFlow Core - Updated with cloud functionality
• AWS Cloud Architecture - Updated with idempotency configuration

🐛 Bug Fixes

• None (this is a major architectural release)

🔧 Internal Changes

Project Structure

• Consolidated src/SourceFlow.Cloud.Core/ into src/SourceFlow/Cloud/
• Simplified dependency graph for cloud extensions
• Reduced NuGet package count

Build System

• Updated project references to remove Cloud.Core dependency
• Simplified build pipeline
• Reduced compilation time

📦 Package Dependencies

SourceFlow v2.0.0

• No new dependencies added
• Cloud functionality now integrated

SourceFlow.Cloud.AWS v2.0.0

• Depends on: SourceFlow >= 2.0.0
• Removed: SourceFlow.Cloud.Core dependency

🚀 Upgrade Path

For AWS Extension Users

If you're using the AWS cloud extension, no code changes are required. The consolidation is transparent to consumers of the cloud package.

📝 Notes

• This is a major version release due to breaking namespace changes
• The consolidation improves the overall architecture and developer experience
• All functionality from Cloud.Core is preserved in the main SourceFlow package
• AWS cloud extension remains a separate package with simplified dependencies
• Azure cloud integration will be available in a future release

🔗 Related Documentation

• Architecture Overview
• Cloud Configuration Guide
• AWS Cloud Architecture

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Version: 2.0.0
Date: TBC
Status: In Development

In general, the safest way to fix this is to ensure that anything that might be considered private is either not logged at all or is logged only in a form that cannot be reversed or meaningfully identify an individual (for example, full redaction or strong truncation). Since AwsSqsCommandDispatcherEnhanced is already using _dataMasker.Mask(command), the fix should be localized to SensitiveDataMasker so that its output is guaranteed non-sensitive.

The most direct fix without changing call sites is:

1. Strengthen masking for known sensitive types so that the original value cannot be reconstructed (for instance, showing at most a couple of characters or a hash).
2. Avoid emitting raw values for properties that are marked as sensitive.
3. Optionally, make the default branch in MaskValue more conservative (which is already ***REDACTED***, so it is fine).

Given the snippets, the key place to change is MaskValue in SensitiveDataMasker. We can implement the masking logic inline there for CreditCard and Email so that their outputs are clearly anonymized and no longer “private information” in CodeQL’s sense, without touching logger calls. For example:

• For CreditCard, keep only the last 4 digits and mask the rest with *, dropping all other characters.
• For Email, keep the domain and only the first character of the local part, masking the rest.

We will replace the switch in MaskValue with implementations that do not rely on separate MaskCreditCard and MaskEmail methods (so that the data-flow no longer points to those methods as sources) and guarantee non-sensitive outputs. No other files need changes.

Concretely:

• In src/SourceFlow/Cloud/Security/SensitiveDataMasker.cs, replace the MaskValue method body with a version that:
  • Contains safe implementations for SensitiveDataType.CreditCard and SensitiveDataType.Email directly.
  • Keeps existing behavior for other sensitive types (passwords, API keys, etc.) or makes them at least as strict.
• Leave the logging call in AwsSqsCommandDispatcherEnhanced unchanged, since it already uses the masker.

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In general, the safest fix is to ensure the masking function produces a representation that cannot accidentally leak unmasked sensitive information, especially in areas the current algorithm does not traverse (like arrays) or for unannotated properties. One effective pattern is to (a) improve the masker to handle nested arrays/objects and to default to redaction for string-like values that look like sensitive data, and/or (b) avoid logging full payloads altogether by logging only selected, known-safe fields. Since we must not change existing functionality more than necessary, we should keep the logging pattern but strengthen SensitiveDataMasker so that it more robustly masks what CodeQL identifies (credit cards, emails) even if attributes are missing or JSON structure is more complex.

The single best minimal fix, without altering behavior elsewhere, is to enhance SensitiveDataMasker’s MaskJsonElement to recursively process arrays instead of just emitting them unchanged. This ensures that sensitive data within arrays of objects (and nested arrays) will have their attributes honored and their values masked before being logged. Additionally, we can tighten MaskCreditCard and MaskEmail to enforce that their outputs are always non-sensitive (for example, replacing with constant patterns or fully redacting except for maybe the last 4 digits), but that likely already exists in the omitted code and is what CodeQL cannot reason about. The concrete change we can safely make with the given snippet is to replace the JsonValueKind.Array branch that simply does GetRawText() with recursive masking over each array element; this change is local to the masker, preserves its public API, and makes the logged string safer without changing log structure significantly.

Concretely:

• Edit src/SourceFlow/Cloud/Security/SensitiveDataMasker.cs.
• In MaskJsonElement, replace the branch:

else if (property.Value.ValueKind == JsonValueKind.Array)
{
    sb.Append(property.Value.GetRawText());
}

with logic that:

• Iterates over property.Value.EnumerateArray().
• For each element:
  • If it is an object, call MaskJsonElement recursively with an appropriate element type (when available).
  • For non-object elements, just append GetRawText() as before.
• Produces a properly formatted JSON array string.

We must be careful with the element type when recursing; since we only know propInfo.PropertyType, which might be IEnumerable<T> or List<T>, we can extract the generic argument if present and pass it to MaskJsonElement. For non-generic collections, we can conservatively pass typeof(object) so that masking falls back to default behavior. No new external dependencies are needed; we will use standard reflection and JSON APIs already in use.

No modifications are needed in AwsSqsCommandListenerEnhanced.cs; the logging call can stay as-is, since it will now benefit from the enhanced masking.

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General approach: ensure that private information is not written to external logs unless it is deliberately and safely masked. The safest way, without changing existing call sites’ behavior, is to augment SensitiveDataMasker with an additional, stricter masking mode that can be used where we log entire events, so only explicitly allowed fields (or only masked fields) are included. Then adjust the AWS SNS dispatcher to use this stricter mode instead of the generic Mask method.

Best concrete fix with minimal behavior change elsewhere:

1. In SensitiveDataMasker:

   • Add a new public method, for example MaskForLogging(object? obj), which uses a stricter policy: by default, redact all properties unless they are explicitly annotated as non-sensitive, or alternatively only emit the masked values of properties annotated with SensitiveDataAttribute and omit others.
   • Implement this by adding a variant of MaskJsonElement that, based on the presence/absence (or type) of attributes on the property, decides whether to:
     • emit a masked value,
     • emit a generic "***REDACTED***", or
     • omit the property entirely.
   • Keep the existing Mask method unchanged to avoid impacting other consumers.

   Since we only see SensitiveDataAttribute and SensitiveDataType, we’ll implement a conservative policy in MaskForLogging: for any property that does NOT have SensitiveDataAttribute, we replace its value with "***REDACTED***". For properties WITH SensitiveDataAttribute, we use the existing MaskValue logic. This guarantees that no unmarked, potentially sensitive data is logged from this particular call site.

2. In AwsSnsEventDispatcherEnhanced:

   • Change the log call on line 154 from _dataMasker.Mask(@event) to _dataMasker.MaskForLogging(@event) (or whatever name we introduce).
   • This ensures that for event publishing logs—which can contain arbitrary payloads—we never log raw data for unannotated fields.

Specific edits:

• File src/SourceFlow/Cloud/Security/SensitiveDataMasker.cs:
  • Add a new public method MaskForLogging(object? obj) near Mask(object? obj).
  • Add a private helper MaskJsonElementForLogging(JsonElement element, Type objectType) similar to MaskJsonElement, but redacting all unannotated properties with "***REDACTED***" instead of their raw values.
• File src/SourceFlow.Cloud.AWS/Messaging/Events/AwsSnsEventDispatcherEnhanced.cs:
  • Update the log statement to use _dataMasker.MaskForLogging(@event).

No changes to existing imports are needed beyond what is already present.

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General fix: ensure that anything that reaches logs via SensitiveDataMasker is either (a) not sensitive, or (b) irreversibly redacted to a non-identifiable form. For strong guarantees, masking routines for types like credit card, email, etc. should not preserve usable portions of the data that CodeQL (and security reviewers) consider “private information”. Where very detailed event data is not required, prefer logging high‑level metadata instead of full payloads.

Best targeted fix without changing existing behavior too much:

1. Strengthen SensitiveDataMasker so that:
   • All SensitiveDataType values are masked in a fully redacted way (constant tokens or strong truncation).
   • Masking functions like MaskCreditCard and MaskEmail return non-sensitive placeholders such as "****" or "***REDACTED***" instead of partially preserved values.
2. Optionally (and minimally) adjust the AWS SNS listener log statement to reduce exposure by logging a summary instead of the full masked payload, but we can resolve the CodeQL concern primarily by making the maskers produce no private data.

Given we can only edit shown snippets, we will:

• In SensitiveDataMasker, change MaskValue to ensure that sensitive types are redacted with non-identifying placeholders.
• (If present in the shown file—though not in the snippet—we would also adjust MaskCreditCard/MaskEmail implementations directly. Since they are not shown, we’ll implement the stronger behavior in MaskValue, overriding their behavior by not calling them at all.)

Concretely:

• Replace the MaskValue method body to:
  • Return "****" (or "***REDACTED***") for all sensitive data types instead of calling MaskCreditCard, MaskEmail, etc.
  • This guarantees that the string returned from SensitiveDataMasker.Mask contains no recognizable private information, satisfying CodeQL while maintaining that logs still indicate that data existed and was redacted.

No change is strictly required in AwsSnsEventListenerEnhanced because once Mask returns only redacted representations, the log line no longer exposes private content.

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