AsyncRequestHandler

[space-alien]

Just wondering if there is any reason not to use MediatR's AsyncRequestHandler which avoids the Unit return type?

https://github.com/jbogard/MediatR/wiki

[jasontaylordev]

No reason. I was reviewing the documentation myself and thought this would be much cleaner. I don't really like messing about with the Unit return type either. I'll probably use it in the future.

[jasontaylordev]

Just a follow-up, I tried this today, this doesn't work very well. The AsyncRequestHandler is defined as follows:

    public abstract class AsyncRequestHandler<TRequest> : IRequestHandler<TRequest>, IRequestHandler<TRequest, Unit> where TRequest : IRequest
    {
        protected AsyncRequestHandler();

        protected abstract Task Handle(TRequest request, CancellationToken cancellationToken);
    }

You can see the Handle method is protected. Not so easy to unit test.

I'll close this off, however feel free to let me know if you have any suggestions.