AOT support?

[lukedukeus]

Is there a doc / guide to what parts of brighter are or are not AOT compatible?

I have a project where AOT compatibility is a requirement, and I want to use brighter, but I don't want to get halfway through and discover that some functionality would break AOT compatibility.

Thanks!

[lillo42]

Hey @lukedukeus for now Brighter doesn't have official support to AOT, maybe on V11 we are going to focus more this (like adding AOT attributes), but as far as I know there is some people using Brighter with AOT without issue

[lillo42]

@SteveBush can you share your experience with Brighter + AOT?

[SteveBush]

I have incorporated Brighter into an MAUI client application that supports WinUI, IOS, Android, and MacCatalyst. IOS and MacCatalyst are AOT compiled.

I have unit tests that exercise Brighter across all four client platforms and WPF (net472). I have used the SQLite inbox and outbox implementations on all clients.

Hangfire does not support net472 due to code signing issues, so I don't use the Hangfire scheduler integration.

It really depends on what you're planning on doing.

[lukedukeus]

So far, it seems to be working out of the box with AOT. The only modification I have had to make is using source generation for json serialization.

I added this to my startup:

services.AddBrighter().ConfigureJsonSerialisation(options =>
{
    options.TypeInfoResolver = JsonSourceGenerationContext.Default;
});

And added the message type to the serializer:

using Paramore.Brighter;

[JsonSourceGenerationOptions(WriteIndented = true)]
[JsonSerializable(typeof(Message))]
internal partial class JsonSourceGenerationContext : JsonSerializerContext
{
}