Generator

Dosaic.Hosting.Generator is a Roslyn IIncrementalGenerator that runs at compile time to discover all Dosaic plugin types across the application and its referenced assemblies. It emits a single generated class — Dosaic.Generated.DosaicPluginTypes — containing a Type[] of every discovered plugin. This enables AOT-compatible, reflection-free plugin discovery for Dosaic.Hosting.WebHost.

Installation

Add both packages to your application project:

dotnet add package Dosaic.Hosting.Generator
dotnet add package Dosaic.Hosting.WebHost

Or as PackageReference entries in your .csproj:

<PackageReference Include="Dosaic.Hosting.Generator" Version="" />
<PackageReference Include="Dosaic.Hosting.WebHost" Version="" />

Note: If you omit Dosaic.Hosting.Generator you must pass plugin types to the web host manually.

Usage

Because the generator runs during compilation, no additional configuration is required. Reference DosaicPluginTypes.All directly in your Program.cs:

using Dosaic.Hosting.WebHost;

PluginWebHostBuilder.RunDefault(Dosaic.Generated.DosaicPluginTypes.All);

PluginWebHostBuilder iterates the provided Type[] and activates every service-, application-, and endpoint-configurator plugin at startup.

How it Works

PluginTypesGenerator implements IIncrementalGenerator and executes the following pipeline on every incremental build:

1. Syntax filtering — registers a SyntaxProvider that selects every TypeDeclarationSyntax node in the compilation.

2. Type resolution — combines the full Compilation with the collected syntax nodes and resolves each candidate to an ITypeSymbol.

3. Discovery — scans both the host assembly and every referenced assembly symbol for types that match the inclusion criteria (see below).

4. Code emission — writes DosaicPluginTypes.g.cs into the compilation with the Dosaic.Generated namespace.

Inclusion criteria

A type is included in DosaicPluginTypes.All when all of the following are true:

• The type is public and not abstract.

• The root namespace of the type does not match any excluded namespace prefix.

• At least one of:

  • The type (directly or via its interface hierarchy) implements IPluginActivateable, or

  • The type carries an attribute whose root namespace starts with Dosaic.

Generated output

The generator emits a file named DosaicPluginTypes.g.cs similar to the following example:

using System;
using System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis;
using System.CodeDom.Compiler;

namespace Dosaic.Generated;

[ExcludeFromCodeCoverage]
[GeneratedCode("Dosaic.Hosting.Generator", "1.0.0.0")]
public class DosaicPluginTypes
{
    public static Type[] All = new Type[]
    {
        typeof(Dosaic.Api.OpenApi.OpenApiConfiguration),
        typeof(Dosaic.Api.OpenApi.OpenApiPlugin),
        typeof(Dosaic.Hosting.Abstractions.Middlewares.ExceptionMiddleware),
        typeof(Dosaic.Hosting.Abstractions.Middlewares.RequestContentLengthLimitMiddleware),
        typeof(Dosaic.Plugins.Authorization.Keycloak.KeycloakPlugin),
        typeof(Dosaic.Plugins.Authorization.Keycloak.KeycloakPluginConfiguration),
        typeof(Dosaic.Plugins.Endpoints.RestResourceEntity.RestResourceEntityPlugin),
        typeof(Dosaic.Plugins.Jobs.Hangfire.HangfireConfiguration),
        typeof(Dosaic.Plugins.Jobs.Hangfire.HangFirePlugin),
        typeof(Dosaic.Plugins.Persistence.EntityFramework.EntityFrameworkPlugin),
    };
}

Types are sorted alphabetically by their fully-qualified name. Generic types are emitted as open generics (e.g. typeof(MyPlugin<>)).

When no plugin types are found the generator still emits the class with an empty array:

public static Type[] All = new Type[0];

Excluded namespaces

The following root-namespace prefixes are ignored during discovery to avoid pulling in framework or third-party types:

Prefix	Reason
Microsoft	ASP.NET Core / runtime types
System	BCL types
FastEndpoints	Third-party endpoint library
testhost	Test runner host
netstandard	.NET Standard contract assembly
Newtonsoft	JSON.NET
mscorlib	Legacy BCL
NuGet	NuGet client types
NSwag	OpenAPI tooling
FluentValidation	Validation library
YamlDotNet	YAML parsing
Accessibility	Windows UI accessibility
NJsonSchema	JSON schema library
Namotion	JSON schema / reflection helpers

This list may be extended in future releases as new dependencies are integrated.

Features

• Zero runtime reflection — all plugin discovery happens at Roslyn compile time; no assembly scanning at startup.

• Incremental generation — uses IIncrementalGenerator for fast, cache-friendly incremental builds; only re-runs when affected syntax changes.

• Full-assembly scanning — discovers plugins in both the host application assembly and every transitively referenced assembly.

• Generic type support — correctly emits open generic typeof(…) expressions for generic plugin types.

• AOT compatible — the generated Type[] is a plain static field; compatible with ahead-of-time compilation and trimming.

• Automatic exclusion — well-known framework and third-party namespaces are filtered out automatically.

• Deterministic output — types are sorted alphabetically by fully-qualified name, producing stable diffs across builds.

• Decorated output — generated file is annotated with [ExcludeFromCodeCoverage] and [GeneratedCode] to keep tooling metrics clean.