Suggested Extensions

Would it be possible to add a few Extensions allowing the sentence structure to be inverted when using MediatR?

Instead of doing this:

mediator.Send(request);

mediator.Send(new Request()
{
    Message = "Message"
});

handler.Handle(new Request()
{
    Message = "Message"
});

Do this:

request.Send(mediator);

new Request()
{
     Message = "Message"
}.Send(mediator);

new Request()
{
     Message = "Message"
}.Send(handler); 

Extensions for Send and Publish: https://gist.github.com/FuncLun/3876018345f6c6dc3b494ec0a2c6219a

Those extensions use Send/Publish to IRequestHandler/INotificationHandler, allowing you to pass either a mediator or a handler.

[no1melman]

This feels a little obscure and it is weird that you would attach the send action to a DTO class. I’m not saying you can’t have those extensions in your own project - I just feel they would be out of place in the MediatR library

[jbogard]

Closing until C# gets a pipe forward operator