[Docs] Add circuit breaker to the migration guide

docs/migration-v8.md

@@ -597,6 +597,178 @@ ResiliencePipeline<HttpResponseMessage> pipelineT = new ResiliencePipelineBuilde
 >
 > For further information please check out the [Timeout resilience strategy documentation](strategies/timeout.md).
 
+## Migrating circuit breaker policies
+
+This section describes how to migrate v7 circuit breaker policies to V8 circuit breaker strategies.
+
+### Circuit breaker in v7
+
+V7's "Standard" Circuit Breaker policy could be defined like below:
+
+<!-- snippet: migration-circuit-breaker-v7 -->
+```cs
+// Create sync circuit breaker
+ISyncPolicy syncPolicy = Policy
+    .Handle<SomeExceptionType>()
+    .CircuitBreaker(
+        exceptionsAllowedBeforeBreaking: 2,
+        durationOfBreak: TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1));
+
+// Create async circuit breaker
+IAsyncPolicy asyncPolicy = Policy
+    .Handle<SomeExceptionType>()
+    .CircuitBreakerAsync(
+        exceptionsAllowedBeforeBreaking: 2,
+        durationOfBreak: TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1));
+
+// Create generic sync circuit breaker
+ISyncPolicy<HttpResponseMessage> syncPolicyT = Policy<HttpResponseMessage>
+    .Handle<SomeExceptionType>()
+    .CircuitBreaker(
+        handledEventsAllowedBeforeBreaking: 2,
+        durationOfBreak: TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1));
+
+// Create generic async circuit breaker
+IAsyncPolicy<HttpResponseMessage> asyncPolicyT = Policy<HttpResponseMessage>
+    .Handle<SomeExceptionType>()
+    .CircuitBreakerAsync(
+        handledEventsAllowedBeforeBreaking: 2,
+        durationOfBreak: TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1));
+```
+<!-- endSnippet -->
+
+V7's Advanced Circuit Breaker policy could be defined like below:
+
+<!-- snippet: migration-advanced-circuit-breaker-v7 -->
+```cs
+// Create sync advanced circuit breaker
+ISyncPolicy syncPolicy = Policy
+    .Handle<SomeExceptionType>()
+    .AdvancedCircuitBreaker(
+        failureThreshold: 0.5d,
+        samplingDuration: TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5),
+        minimumThroughput: 2,
+        durationOfBreak: TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1));
+
+// Create async advanced circuit breaker
+IAsyncPolicy asyncPolicy = Policy
+    .Handle<SomeExceptionType>()
+    .AdvancedCircuitBreakerAsync(
+        failureThreshold: 0.5d,
+        samplingDuration: TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5),
+        minimumThroughput: 2,
+        durationOfBreak: TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1));
+
+// Create generic sync advanced circuit breaker
+ISyncPolicy<HttpResponseMessage> syncPolicyT = Policy<HttpResponseMessage>
+    .Handle<SomeExceptionType>()
+    .AdvancedCircuitBreaker(
+        failureThreshold: 0.5d,
+        samplingDuration: TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5),
+        minimumThroughput: 2,
+        durationOfBreak: TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1));
+
+// Create generic async advanced circuit breaker
+IAsyncPolicy<HttpResponseMessage> asyncPolicyT = Policy<HttpResponseMessage>
+    .Handle<SomeExceptionType>()
+    .AdvancedCircuitBreakerAsync(
+        failureThreshold: 0.5d,
+        samplingDuration: TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5),
+        minimumThroughput: 2,
+        durationOfBreak: TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1));
+
+// Check circuit state
+ICircuitBreakerPolicy cbPolicy = (ICircuitBreakerPolicy)asyncPolicy;
+bool isOpen = cbPolicy.CircuitState == CircuitState.Open || cbPolicy.CircuitState == CircuitState.Isolated;
+
+// Manually control state
+cbPolicy.Isolate(); // Transitions into the Isolated state
+cbPolicy.Reset(); // Transitions into the Closed state
+```
+<!-- endSnippet -->
+
+### Circuit breaker in v8
+
+> [!IMPORTANT]
+>
+> Polly V8 does not support the standard (*"classic"*) circuit breaker with consecutive failure counting.
+>
+> In case of V8 you can define a Circuit Breaker strategy which works like the advanced circuit breaker in V7.
+
+<!-- snippet: migration-circuit-breaker-v8 -->
+```cs
+// Create pipeline with circuit breaker. Because ResiliencePipeline supports both sync and async
+// callbacks, there is no need to define it twice.
+ResiliencePipeline pipeline = new ResiliencePipelineBuilder()
+    .AddCircuitBreaker(new CircuitBreakerStrategyOptions
+    {
+        ShouldHandle = new PredicateBuilder().Handle<SomeExceptionType>(),
+        FailureRatio = 0.5d,
+        SamplingDuration = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5),
+        MinimumThroughput = 2,
+        BreakDuration = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1)
+    })
+    .Build();
+
+// Create a generic pipeline with circuit breaker. Because ResiliencePipeline<T> supports both sync and async
+// callbacks, there is also no need to define it twice.
+ResiliencePipeline<HttpResponseMessage> pipelineT = new ResiliencePipelineBuilder<HttpResponseMessage>()
+    .AddCircuitBreaker(new CircuitBreakerStrategyOptions<HttpResponseMessage>
+    {
+        ShouldHandle = new PredicateBuilder<HttpResponseMessage>().Handle<SomeExceptionType>(),
+        FailureRatio = 0.5d,
+        SamplingDuration = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5),
+        MinimumThroughput = 2,
+        BreakDuration = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1)
+    })
+    .Build();
+
+// Check circuit state
+CircuitBreakerStateProvider stateProvider = new();
+// Manually control state
+CircuitBreakerManualControl manualControl = new();
+
+ResiliencePipeline pipelineState = new ResiliencePipelineBuilder()
+    .AddCircuitBreaker(new CircuitBreakerStrategyOptions
+    {
+        ShouldHandle = new PredicateBuilder().Handle<SomeExceptionType>(),
+        FailureRatio = 0.5d,
+        SamplingDuration = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5),
+        MinimumThroughput = 2,
+        BreakDuration = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1),
+        StateProvider = stateProvider,
+        ManualControl = manualControl
+    })
+    .Build();
+
+// Check circuit state
+bool isOpen = stateProvider.CircuitState == CircuitState.Open || stateProvider.CircuitState == CircuitState.Isolated;
+
+// Manually control state
+await manualControl.IsolateAsync(); // Transitions into the Isolated state
+await manualControl.CloseAsync(); // Transitions into the Closed state
+```
+<!-- endSnippet -->
+
+> [!NOTE]
+>
+> In case of V7 you could do an optimization to reduce the thrown exceptions.
+>
+> You could guard the `Execute{Async}` call with a condition that the circuit is not broken. This technique does **not** work with V8.
+>
+> Under the [circuit breaker's anti-patterns](strategies/circuit-breaker.md#4---reducing-thrown-exceptions) you can find the suggested way for V8.
+
+____
+
+> [!IMPORTANT]
+>
+> Things to remember:
+>
+> - Use `AddCircuitBreaker` to add a circuit breaker strategy to your resiliency pipeline
+> - Use the `CircuitBreakerStrategyOptions{<TResult>}` to customize your circuit breaker behavior to meet your requirements
+>
+> For further information please check out the [Circuit Breaker resilience strategy documentation](strategies/circuit-breaker.md).
+
 ## Migrating other policies
 
 Migrating is a process similar to the ones described in the previous sections. Keep in mind that:

docs/strategies/circuit-breaker.md

@@ -535,3 +535,85 @@ public Downstream1Client(
 > The above sample code used the `AsAsyncPolicy<HttpResponseMessage>()` method to convert the `ResiliencePipeline<HttpResponseMessage>` to `IAsyncPolicy<HttpResponseMessage>`.
 > It is required because the `AddPolicyHandler()` method anticipates an `IAsyncPolicy<HttpResponse>` parameter.
 > Please be aware that, later an `AddResilienceHandler()` will be introduced in the `Microsoft.Extensions.Http.Resilience` package which is the successor of the `Microsoft.Extensions.Http.Polly`.
+
+### 4 - Reducing thrown exceptions
+
+In case of Circuit Breaker when it is either in the `Open` or `Isolated` state new requests are rejected immediately.
+
+That means the strategy will throw either a `BrokenCircuitException` or an `IsolatedCircuitException` respectively.
+
+❌ DON'T
+
+Use guard expression to call `Execute{Async}` only if the circuit is not broken:
+
+<!-- snippet: circuit-breaker-anti-pattern-4 -->
+```cs
+var stateProvider = new CircuitBreakerStateProvider();
+var circuitBreaker = new ResiliencePipelineBuilder()
+    .AddCircuitBreaker(new()
+    {
+        ShouldHandle = new PredicateBuilder().Handle<HttpRequestException>(),
+        BreakDuration = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(0.5),
+        StateProvider = stateProvider
+    })
+    .Build();
+
+if (stateProvider.CircuitState
+    is not CircuitState.Open
+    and not CircuitState.Isolated)
+{
+    var response = await circuitBreaker.ExecuteAsync(static async ct =>
+    {
+        return await IssueRequest();
+    }, CancellationToken.None);
+
+    // Your code goes here to process response
+}
+```
+<!-- endSnippet -->
+
+**Reasoning**:
+
+- The problem with this approach is that the circuit breaker will never transition into the `HalfOpen` state.
+- The circuit breaker does not act as an active object. In other words the state transition does not happen automatically in the background.
+- The circuit transition into the `HalfOpen` state when the `Execute{Async}` method is called and the `BreakDuration` elapsed.
+
+✅ DO
+
+Use `ExecuteOutcomeAsync` to avoid throwing exception:
+
+<!-- snippet: circuit-breaker-pattern-4 -->
+```cs
+var context = ResilienceContextPool.Shared.Get();
+var circuitBreaker = new ResiliencePipelineBuilder()
+    .AddCircuitBreaker(new()
+    {
+        ShouldHandle = new PredicateBuilder().Handle<HttpRequestException>(),
+        BreakDuration = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(0.5),
+    })
+    .Build();
+
+Outcome<HttpResponseMessage> outcome = await circuitBreaker.ExecuteOutcomeAsync(static async (ctx, state) =>
+{
+    var response = await IssueRequest();
+    return Outcome.FromResult(response);
+}, context, "state");
+
+ResilienceContextPool.Shared.Return(context);
+
+if (outcome.Exception is BrokenCircuitException)
+{
+    // The execution was stopped by the circuit breaker
+}
+else
+{
+    HttpResponseMessage response = outcome.Result!;
+    // Your code goes here to process the response
+}
+```
+<!-- endSnippet -->
+
+**Reasoning**:
+
+- The `ExecuteOutcomeAsync` is a low-allocation API which does not throw exceptions; rather it captures them inside an `Outcome` data structure.
+- Since you are calling one of the `Execute` methods, that's why the circuit breaker can transition into the `HalfOpen` state.

src/Snippets/Docs/CircuitBreaker.cs

@@ -214,4 +214,69 @@ [new Uri("https://downstreamN.com")] = GetCircuitBreaker()
         await uriToCbMappings[downstream1Uri].ExecuteAsync(CallXYZOnDownstream1, CancellationToken.None);
         #endregion
     }
+
+    public static async ValueTask AntiPattern_4()
+    {
+        #region circuit-breaker-anti-pattern-4
+
+        var stateProvider = new CircuitBreakerStateProvider();
+        var circuitBreaker = new ResiliencePipelineBuilder()
+            .AddCircuitBreaker(new()
+            {
+                ShouldHandle = new PredicateBuilder().Handle<HttpRequestException>(),
+                BreakDuration = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(0.5),
+                StateProvider = stateProvider
+            })
+            .Build();
+
+        if (stateProvider.CircuitState
+            is not CircuitState.Open
+            and not CircuitState.Isolated)
+        {
+            var response = await circuitBreaker.ExecuteAsync(static async ct =>
+            {
+                return await IssueRequest();
+            }, CancellationToken.None);
+
+            // Your code goes here to process response
+        }
+
+        #endregion
+    }
+
+    private static ValueTask<HttpResponseMessage> IssueRequest() => ValueTask.FromResult(new HttpResponseMessage());
+
+    public static async ValueTask Pattern_4()
+    {
+        #region circuit-breaker-pattern-4
+
+        var context = ResilienceContextPool.Shared.Get();
+        var circuitBreaker = new ResiliencePipelineBuilder()
+            .AddCircuitBreaker(new()
+            {
+                ShouldHandle = new PredicateBuilder().Handle<HttpRequestException>(),
+                BreakDuration = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(0.5),
+            })
+            .Build();
+
+        Outcome<HttpResponseMessage> outcome = await circuitBreaker.ExecuteOutcomeAsync(static async (ctx, state) =>
+        {
+            var response = await IssueRequest();
+            return Outcome.FromResult(response);
+        }, context, "state");
+
+        ResilienceContextPool.Shared.Return(context);
+
+        if (outcome.Exception is BrokenCircuitException)
+        {
+            // The execution was stopped by the circuit breaker
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            HttpResponseMessage response = outcome.Result!;
+            // Your code goes here to process the response
+        }
+
+        #endregion
+    }
 }