Workflow Core alternatives and similar packages
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DurableTask
Durable Task Framework allows users to write long running persistent workflows in C# using the async/await capabilities. -
AsyncAwaitBestPractices
Extensions for System.Threading.Tasks.Task and System.Threading.Tasks.ValueTask -
Cronos
A fully-featured .NET library for working with Cron expressions. Built with time zones in mind and intuitively handles daylight saving time transitions -
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NCrontab.Scheduler
NCrontab.Scheduler is a simple, open source task scheduling system that can be used in any .NET application -
Eternity Framework
Long running workflows with ability to suspend and replay the workflow in future. -
InfluxDB - Purpose built for real-time analytics at any scale.
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README
Workflow Core
Workflow Core is a light weight embeddable workflow engine targeting .NET Standard. Think: long running processes with multiple tasks that need to track state. It supports pluggable persistence and concurrency providers to allow for multi-node clusters.
Announcements
New related project: Conductor
Conductor is a stand-alone workflow server as opposed to a library that uses Workflow Core internally. It exposes an API that allows you to store workflow definitions, track running workflows, manage events and define custom steps and scripts for usage in your workflows.
https://github.com/danielgerlag/conductor
Documentation
See Tutorial here.
Fluent API
Define your workflows with the fluent API.
public class MyWorkflow : IWorkflow
{
public void Build(IWorkflowBuilder<MyData> builder)
{
builder
.StartWith<Task1>()
.Then<Task2>()
.Then<Task3>();
}
}
JSON / YAML Workflow Definitions
Define your workflows in JSON or YAML, need to install WorkFlowCore.DSL
{
"Id": "HelloWorld",
"Version": 1,
"Steps": [
{
"Id": "Hello",
"StepType": "MyApp.HelloWorld, MyApp",
"NextStepId": "Bye"
},
{
"Id": "Bye",
"StepType": "MyApp.GoodbyeWorld, MyApp"
}
]
}
Id: HelloWorld
Version: 1
Steps:
- Id: Hello
StepType: MyApp.HelloWorld, MyApp
NextStepId: Bye
- Id: Bye
StepType: MyApp.GoodbyeWorld, MyApp
Sample use cases
- New user workflow ```c# public class MyData { public string Email { get; set; } public string Password { get; set; } public string UserId { get; set; } }
public class MyWorkflow : IWorkflow
{
public void Build(IWorkflowBuilder builder)
{
builder
.StartWith()
.Input(step => step.Email, data => data.Email)
.Input(step => step.Password, data => data.Password)
.Output(data => data.UserId, step => step.UserId)
.Then()
.WaitFor("confirmation", data => data.UserId)
.Then()
.Input(step => step.UserId, data => data.UserId);
}
}
* Saga Transactions
```c#
public class MyWorkflow : IWorkflow
{
public void Build(IWorkflowBuilder<MyData> builder)
{
builder
.StartWith<CreateCustomer>()
.Then<PushToSalesforce>()
.OnError(WorkflowErrorHandling.Retry, TimeSpan.FromMinutes(10))
.Then<PushToERP>()
.OnError(WorkflowErrorHandling.Retry, TimeSpan.FromMinutes(10));
}
}
builder
.StartWith<LogStart>()
.Saga(saga => saga
.StartWith<Task1>()
.CompensateWith<UndoTask1>()
.Then<Task2>()
.CompensateWith<UndoTask2>()
.Then<Task3>()
.CompensateWith<UndoTask3>()
)
.OnError(Models.WorkflowErrorHandling.Retry, TimeSpan.FromMinutes(10))
.Then<LogEnd>();
Persistence
Since workflows are typically long running processes, they will need to be persisted to storage between steps. There are several persistence providers available as separate Nuget packages.
- MemoryPersistenceProvider (Default provider, for demo and testing purposes)
- [MongoDB](src/providers/WorkflowCore.Persistence.MongoDB)
- [Cosmos DB](src/providers/WorkflowCore.Providers.Azure)
- [Amazon DynamoDB](src/providers/WorkflowCore.Providers.AWS)
- [SQL Server](src/providers/WorkflowCore.Persistence.SqlServer)
- [PostgreSQL](src/providers/WorkflowCore.Persistence.PostgreSQL)
- [Sqlite](src/providers/WorkflowCore.Persistence.Sqlite)
- [MySQL](src/providers/WorkflowCore.Persistence.MySQL)
- [Redis](src/providers/WorkflowCore.Providers.Redis)
Search
A search index provider can be plugged in to Workflow Core, enabling you to index your workflows and search against the data and state of them. These are also available as separate Nuget packages.
- [Elasticsearch](src/providers/WorkflowCore.Providers.Elasticsearch)
Extensions
- [User (human) workflows](src/extensions/WorkflowCore.Users)
Samples
[Hello World](src/samples/WorkflowCore.Sample01)
[Multiple outcomes](src/samples/WorkflowCore.Sample12)
[Passing Data](src/samples/WorkflowCore.Sample03)
[Parallel ForEach](src/samples/WorkflowCore.Sample09)
[Sync ForEach](src/samples/WorkflowCore.Sample09s)
[While Loop](src/samples/WorkflowCore.Sample10)
[If Statement](src/samples/WorkflowCore.Sample11)
[Events](src/samples/WorkflowCore.Sample04)
[Activity Workers](src/samples/WorkflowCore.Sample18)
[Parallel Tasks](src/samples/WorkflowCore.Sample13)
[Saga Transactions (with compensation)](src/samples/WorkflowCore.Sample17)
[Scheduled Background Tasks](src/samples/WorkflowCore.Sample16)
[Recurring Background Tasks](src/samples/WorkflowCore.Sample14)
[Dependency Injection](src/samples/WorkflowCore.Sample15)
[Deferred execution & re-entrant steps](src/samples/WorkflowCore.Sample05)
[Looping](src/samples/WorkflowCore.Sample02)
[Exposing a REST API](src/samples/WebApiSample)
[Human(User) Workflow](src/samples/WorkflowCore.Sample08)
[Testing](src/samples/WorkflowCore.TestSample01)
Contributors
- Daniel Gerlag - Initial work
- Jackie Ja
- Aaron Scribner
- Roberto Paterlini
Related Projects
- Conductor (Stand-alone workflow server built on Workflow Core)
Ports
License
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the [LICENSE.md](LICENSE.md) file for details
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the Workflow Core README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.