Proyectos Worker Service

¿Qué es un Worker Service?

Creación de un Worker Service

# Create a new Worker Service project
dotnet new worker -n OrderProcessor

# Generated structure:
# OrderProcessor/
#   Program.cs       — host configuration
#   Worker.cs        — your BackgroundService subclass
#   appsettings.json

Program.cs de Worker Service

using Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting;

var builder = Host.CreateApplicationBuilder(args);

// Register services
builder.Services.AddDbContext<AppDbContext>(opt =>
    opt.UseSqlServer(builder.Configuration.GetConnectionString("Default")));

builder.Services.AddScoped<IOrderRepository, OrderRepository>();
builder.Services.AddHostedService<OrderProcessorWorker>();

var host = builder.Build();
host.Run();

La clase Worker

public class OrderProcessorWorker : BackgroundService
{
    private readonly IServiceScopeFactory _factory;
    private readonly ILogger<OrderProcessorWorker> _logger;

    public OrderProcessorWorker(
        IServiceScopeFactory factory,
        ILogger<OrderProcessorWorker> logger)
    {
        _factory = factory;
        _logger  = logger;
    }

    protected override async Task ExecuteAsync(CancellationToken ct)
    {
        while (!ct.IsCancellationRequested)
        {
            using var scope = _factory.CreateScope();
            var repo = scope.ServiceProvider.GetRequiredService<IOrderRepository>();
            var pending = await repo.GetPendingAsync(ct);
            foreach (var order in pending)
                await ProcessOrderAsync(order, ct);
            await Task.Delay(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10), ct);
        }
    }

    private Task ProcessOrderAsync(Order o, CancellationToken ct) =>
        Task.Delay(100, ct); // placeholder
}

Configuración e inyección de dependencias en Workers

builder.Services.Configure<WorkerSettings>(
    builder.Configuration.GetSection("Worker"));

public class OrderProcessorWorker : BackgroundService
{
    private readonly WorkerSettings _settings;

    public OrderProcessorWorker(IOptions<WorkerSettings> opts, ...)
        => _settings = opts.Value;

    protected override async Task ExecuteAsync(CancellationToken ct)
    {
        while (!ct.IsCancellationRequested)
        {
            // ...
            await Task.Delay(_settings.PollIntervalSeconds * 1000, ct);
        }
    }
}

Registro en Worker Services

// Add Serilog to a Worker Service
builder.Host.UseSerilog((ctx, logConfig) =>
    logConfig
        .ReadFrom.Configuration(ctx.Configuration)
        .WriteTo.Console()
        .WriteTo.Seq(ctx.Configuration["Seq:ServerUrl"]!));

// Structured logging in the worker:
_logger.LogInformation("Processing {Count} orders at {Time}",
    orders.Count, DateTimeOffset.UtcNow);
_logger.LogError(ex, "Failed to process order {OrderId}", order.Id);

Ejecución como servicio de Windows

// dotnet add package Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.WindowsServices

builder.Services.AddWindowsService(options =>
    options.ServiceName = "OrderProcessor");

// Build and publish:
// dotnet publish -c Release -o ./publish

// Install as Windows Service:
// sc create OrderProcessor binpath="C:\services\publish\OrderProcessor.exe"
// sc start OrderProcessor

Ejecución como demonio de Linux con Systemd

// dotnet add package Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.Systemd

builder.Services.AddSystemd();

// Systemd unit file: /etc/systemd/system/orderprocessor.service
// [Unit]
// Description=Order Processor Worker
// [Service]
// Type=notify
// ExecStart=/usr/bin/dotnet /app/OrderProcessor.dll
// Restart=always
// [Install]
// WantedBy=multi-user.target

// Commands:
// sudo systemctl enable orderprocessor
// sudo systemctl start orderprocessor
// sudo journalctl -u orderprocessor -f

Ejecución en Docker

# Dockerfile
FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:9.0 AS build
WORKDIR /src
COPY . .
RUN dotnet publish -c Release -o /app

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/runtime:9.0
WORKDIR /app
COPY --from=build /app .
ENTRYPOINT ["dotnet", "OrderProcessor.dll"]

# docker-compose.yml:
# services:
#   worker:
#     build: .
#     environment:
#       - ConnectionStrings__Default=Server=db;...
#     depends_on: [db]

Caso real: worker de resúmenes de correo electrónico

public class EmailDigestWorker : BackgroundService
{
    private readonly IServiceScopeFactory _factory;
    private readonly ILogger<EmailDigestWorker> _log;

    protected override async Task ExecuteAsync(CancellationToken ct)
    {
        // Run daily at midnight UTC
        while (!ct.IsCancellationRequested)
        {
            var now = DateTime.UtcNow;
            var next = now.Date.AddDays(1); // next midnight
            await Task.Delay(next - now, ct);

            using var scope = _factory.CreateScope();
            var mailer = scope.ServiceProvider.GetRequiredService<IDigestMailer>();

            try   { await mailer.SendDailyDigestsAsync(ct); }
            catch (Exception ex) { _log.LogError(ex, "Digest failed"); }
        }
    }
}

Comprobación rápida

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