Function Monkey Command type MyTypeHandler does not conform to the requirements of the mediator Error

Published on Sunday, February 16, 2020

I've lost an hour this morning to what turned out to be a dumb error on my part, so I'm posting this just in case anyone hits this issue in future.

I'm using James Randall's Function Monkey Library for .NET Azure Functions which uses a Mediation framework by the same author to map incoming command objects to handlers.

Here's the error I was getting.

  FunctionMonkey.Compiler.targets(29, 5): Command type EditLocationHandler does not conform to the requirements of the mediator. 
  
  Commands must implement ICommand or ICommand<T>

Here's my EditLocationHandler

    public class EditLocationHandler : ICommandHandler<EditLocationCommand, Location>
    {
        private readonly ILocationRepository _locationRepository;
        private readonly ILogger<EditLocationHandler> _logger;

        public EditLocationHandler(ILocationRepository locationRepository,
            ILogger<EditLocationHandler> logger)
        {
            _locationRepository = locationRepository;
            _logger = logger;
        }
        
        public async Task<Location> ExecuteAsync(EditLocationCommand command, Location previousResult)
        {
            //snipped For brevity
        }
    }

And my EditLocationCommand

 public class EditLocationCommand : ICommand<Location>
    {
        public Guid Id { get; set; }
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public double Latitude { get; set; }
        public double Longitude { get; set; }
        public string User { get; set; }
        public string Notes { get; set; }
    }

You can probably see why I was stumped, the handler and command implement the very same interfaces the error was telling me I should implement.

After going down the usual rabbit hole which usually ends in me questioning why I'm even a software developer in the first place, I eventually realised the problem was in the Function Configuration file where I'd registered the commands.

  .HttpFunction<AddLocationCommand>(HttpMethod.Post)
  .HttpFunction<EditLocationHandler>(HttpMethod.Put)

HttpFunction expects something of type TCommand, not TCommandHandler.

Yep, I'm an idiot.