ItemRequestOptions not flowing to custom RequestHandler RequestMessage when AllowBulkExecution is set to true

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Describe the bug I’ve been trying to access the .Properties field on the RequestMessage in my custom type deriving from RequestHandler after setting the ItemRequestOptions.Properties and passing it into Container.ReadItemAsync() but every time I would inspect the RequestMessage.Properties field while debugging, it was empty.

I read through the source code for ReadItemAsync and noticed we perform a different operation if BulkOperationIsSupported. When stepping into the method called in this conditional, I saw that we cast RequestOptions to ItemRequestOptions here. When I attempt this cast in my own code, the result of the cast is always null. I suspect this could be the source of the issue.

When I removed the AllowBulkExecution=true bool from my CosmosClientOptions setup, the RequestMessage.Properties in my custom RequestHandler had the properties correctly set from what I passed in from ItemRequestOptions.

To Reproduce

1. Set up CosmosClient and pass in CosmosClientOptions with AllowBulkExcution set to true.
2. Add a custom request handler which derives from RequestHandler
3. Add a Container.ReadItemAsync() method and pass in an object of type ItemRequestOptions with any properties populated.
4. Put a breakpoint in the custom request handler .SendAsync() method.
5. Run the program so that it calls the ReadItemAsync() method.
6. When the breakpoint is hit in .SendAsync(), inspect RequestMessage.Properties.

Expected behavior I expected the fields from the ItemRequestOptions passed into Container.ReadItemAsync() to be available on the RequestMessage in my custom RequestHandler.

Actual behavior None of my ItemRequestOptions fields were being populated on the RequestMessage when inside my custom RequestHandler.SendAsync() method.

Environment summary SDK Version: 3.21.0 OS Version: Windows

Additional context

[ealsur]

This is by design on Bulk. When Bulk mode is on, the operation does not equal the actual network request. The network request is a grouping of operations, which Properties would be sent then? An aggregation of all the Properties of all the grouped operations? What if they have Properties with the same key?

[radmint]

Sounds good, thanks for the info, feel free to close!