chore: Improved Exception messages

[steffenskov]

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Release

  • Released version 1.4.1 on September 16, 2026.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved exception messages with clearer, fully qualified type names, including generic types.
  • Added clearer diagnostics for missing handlers, duplicate registrations, and invalid pipeline behaviors.

• Documentation

  • Added migration guidance for users moving from MediatR, including updated package names, registration methods, namespaces, configuration, and handler requirements.
  • Clarified handler visibility requirements in the changelog.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds recursive type-name formatting and uses it in mediator exception messages. Tests now validate formatted generic names and updated diagnostics. The project version, changelog, and migration documentation are updated for release 1.4.1.

Changes

Type Formatting and Release Update

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Type formatter contract and coverage src/FreeMediator/Services/TypeFormatter.cs, tests/FreeMediator.UnitTests/Services/TypeFormatterTests.cs	Adds formatting for null, non-generic, closed generic, nested generic, and open generic types.
Exception formatting integration and validation src/FreeMediator/Configuration/*, src/FreeMediator/Services/Mediator.cs, tests/FreeMediator.UnitTests/Configuration/*, tests/FreeMediator.UnitTests/Services/SenderTests.cs	Uses formatted type names in configuration, registration, wrapper-generation, and handler-lookup exceptions. Updates assertions and adds a missing-handler diagnostic test.
Release metadata and migration documentation Directory.Build.props, CHANGELOG.md, README.md	Sets version 1.4.1, records the release changes, and adds MediatR migration guidance.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 85571

The migration instructions can cause consumer code to fail or register the wrong services, while some exception messages identify nested handler types incorrectly. Correct these before merging the release documentation.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 1.92% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 52 functions across 12 files. (3 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: improving exception messages. It is concise and related to the changeset.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 1.92% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 52 functions across 12 files. (3 skipped: 3 unsupported.)

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Inline comments:
In `@README.md`:
- Around line 83-84: Update the README guidance for sealed generic request
handlers to state precisely that partial-arity handlers wrapped by
ServiceRegistrar must be public, not merely internal or otherwise visible; also
correct the spelling of “explaining.”
- Line 76: Update the README migration guidance for TypeEvaluator to show a
predicate that negates XYZ’s result for each Type, rather than applying the !
operator to the predicate object. Clarify that IgnoreServices skips types when
the predicate returns true, so the existing whitelist behavior is preserved by
inverting the per-type evaluation.

In `@src/FreeMediator/Services/TypeFormatter.cs`:
- Line 20: Update the type-name formatting logic around baseName and the
DeclaringType handling so nested generic declaring types retain every declaring
segment while the current Type.Name contributes only its own generic arguments.
Format the declaring type and current type separately, and add a regression test
covering a nested declaring generic type to verify the exception identifies the
correct handler type.

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📥 Commits

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📒 Files selected for processing (15)

• CHANGELOG.md
• Directory.Build.props
• README.md
• src/FreeMediator/Configuration/MediatorConfiguration.cs
• src/FreeMediator/Configuration/RequestHandlerWrapperGenerator.cs
• src/FreeMediator/Configuration/ServiceRegistrar.cs
• src/FreeMediator/Services/Mediator.cs
• src/FreeMediator/Services/TypeFormatter.cs
• tests/FreeMediator.UnitTests/Configuration/MediatorConfigurationTests/AddBehaviorTests.cs
• tests/FreeMediator.UnitTests/Configuration/MediatorConfigurationTests/AddOpenBehaviorTests.cs
• tests/FreeMediator.UnitTests/Configuration/MediatorConfigurationTests/RegisterServicesTests.cs
• tests/FreeMediator.UnitTests/Configuration/RequestHandlerWrapperGeneratorTests.cs
• tests/FreeMediator.UnitTests/Configuration/ServiceRegistrarTests.cs
• tests/FreeMediator.UnitTests/Services/SenderTests.cs
• tests/FreeMediator.UnitTests/Services/TypeFormatterTests.cs

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