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Plan to Fix DURABLE2003 False Positives for Cross-Assembly Activities

  • Understand the issue: Analyzer only scans current compilation, not referenced assemblies
  • Understand the analyzer code structure
  • Build and test the analyzer successfully
  • Modify FunctionNotFoundAnalyzer to scan referenced assemblies for activity/orchestrator definitions
  • Add logic to find [Function] + [ActivityTrigger] methods in referenced assemblies
  • Add logic to find TaskActivity-derived classes in referenced assemblies
  • Add logic to find ITaskOrchestrator implementations in referenced assemblies
  • Create test to validate cross-assembly activity detection
  • Run tests to verify fix (all 20 tests passing)
  • Run full analyzer test suite (all 122 tests passing)
  • Address code review feedback (assembly filtering and test comment updates)
  • Refactor code to extract helper methods and improve maintainability
  • Fix duplicate XML documentation
  • Filter to only scan assemblies that reference Durable Task types
  • Remove Microsoft.DurableTask.Abstractions (transitive dependency only)
  • Replace assembly reference checking with semantic lookup
  • Optimize to avoid double traversal of namespace tree
  • Complete - All changes implemented and tested
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<issue_title>Roslyn Analyzer to detect calls to non-existent functions fails, when Activity function defined in other assembly than orchestrator</issue_title>
<issue_description>The Roslyn analyzer introduced in version 1.12.1 incorrectly reports warning DURABLE2003 when an activity function is defined in a separate assembly from the orchestrator, even though the function is correctly defined and works at runtime.

Package Version
• Working version: Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker.Extensions.DurableTask 1.12.0
• Affected version: Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker.Extensions.DurableTask 1.12.1

Expected Behavior

No warning should be raised when an activity function is correctly defined in a referenced assembly. The analyzer should be able to detect activity functions across assembly boundaries.

Actual Behavior

The analyzer emits the following warning:

DurableOrchestrator\Function1.cs(23,27,23,88): warning DURABLE2003: The activity function 'SayHello' was not found in the current compilation. Ensure the activity is defined and the name matches exactly.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Create a new Azure Function project from the standard template with Orchestrator function
  2. Create a separate class library project (e.g., ActivityFunctions)
  3. Move the SayHello activity function to the separate assembly
  4. Add a project reference from the orchestrator project to the ActivityFunctions project
  5. Update Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker.Extensions.DurableTask to version 1.12.1</issue_description>

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Copilot AI and others added 3 commits December 19, 2025 18:15
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Fix DURABLE2003 false positives for cross-assembly activities
dc9c25e 
Modified FunctionNotFoundAnalyzer to scan referenced assemblies for activity and orchestrator definitions. Added ScanReferencedAssemblies and ScanNamespaceForFunctions methods to detect functions defined in other assemblies. Added three new tests to verify cross-assembly detection works correctly.

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Address code review feedback
8b7b23e 
Add assembly filtering to skip system assemblies for performance. Update test comments to accurately describe that they simulate cross-assembly scenarios using separate source files in the same compilation.

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Refactor code based on code review feedback
7343692 
Extract helper methods IsActivityMethod, IsOrchestratorMethod, and ImplementsInterface to reduce code duplication. Move system assembly names to static readonly collections. Optimize LINQ chain in ScanReferencedAssemblies to use simple foreach loop.

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YunchuWang commented Dec 19, 2025

@copilot it will scan all assemblies including transitive dependencies? we should only scan assemblies that relevant meaning the ones customers have defined activity or (sub) orchestration.

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Filter assembly scanning to only Durable Task assemblies
b1009a6 
Add ShouldScanAssembly method that checks if an assembly references Durable Task types (Microsoft.DurableTask.Abstractions, Microsoft.DurableTask.Worker, or Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker.Extensions.DurableTask) before scanning. This prevents scanning of transitive dependencies that don't contain activities or orchestrators, improving performance and reducing false positives.

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Copilot AI commented Dec 19, 2025

@copilot it will scan all assemblies including transitive dependencies? we should only scan assemblies that relevant meaning the ones customers have defined activity or (sub) orchestration.

Fixed in b1009a6. Added ShouldScanAssembly method that checks if an assembly references Durable Task types (Microsoft.DurableTask.Abstractions, Microsoft.DurableTask.Worker, or Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker.Extensions.DurableTask) before scanning it. This ensures we only scan assemblies that customers have defined activities or orchestrations in, skipping transitive dependencies that don't contain Durable Task functions.

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YunchuWang commented Dec 19, 2025

@copilot why scan for Microsoft.DurableTask.Abstractions reference?

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Remove Microsoft.DurableTask.Abstractions from assembly filter
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Microsoft.DurableTask.Abstractions is a transitive dependency that users never directly reference. Users reference either Microsoft.DurableTask.Worker (for non-function scenarios) or Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker.Extensions.DurableTask (for Azure Functions), both of which transitively bring in the abstractions package. Updated ShouldScanAssembly to only check for packages users actually reference.

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Copilot AI commented Dec 19, 2025

@copilot why scan for Microsoft.DurableTask.Abstractions reference?

Removed in 7d44132. Microsoft.DurableTask.Abstractions is a transitive dependency - users never directly reference it. Users reference either Microsoft.DurableTask.Worker (non-function scenarios) or Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker.Extensions.DurableTask (Azure Functions), which both transitively bring in the abstractions package. Now only checking for packages users actually reference.

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YunchuWang commented Dec 19, 2025

@copilot scanning assemblies references this way is too fragile, the scanning logic should be to if IsSystemAssembly(assembly)
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if ContainsDurableSymbols(assembly) // semantic lookup
scan this assembly

else
skip

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Use semantic lookup instead of assembly references
e94bcd5 
Replace fragile assembly reference checking with semantic lookup using ContainsDurableSymbols. This checks if an assembly contains any Durable Task types (TaskActivity, ITaskOrchestrator, ActivityTriggerAttribute, OrchestrationTriggerAttribute) by examining the symbol tree, which is more robust and maintainable than checking package references.

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Copilot AI commented Dec 19, 2025

@copilot scanning assemblies references this way is too fragile, the scanning logic should be to if IsSystemAssembly(assembly)
skip

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Implemented in e94bcd5. Replaced assembly reference checking with semantic lookup via ContainsDurableSymbols that examines the symbol tree for Durable Task types (TaskActivity, ITaskOrchestrator, ActivityTriggerAttribute, OrchestrationTriggerAttribute). This is more robust and won't break if package names change.

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YunchuWang commented Dec 19, 2025

@copilot ScanNamespaceForFunctions(
assembly.GlobalNamespace, this can be a performance concern right

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Optimize assembly scanning to avoid double traversal
9f8c8ed 
Removed ShouldScanAssembly and ContainsDurableSymbols methods that caused the namespace tree to be traversed twice (once to check if assembly has Durable symbols, then again to collect function names). Now directly calls ScanNamespaceForFunctions which does all the work in a single pass. IsSystemAssembly already filters out the vast majority of irrelevant assemblies.

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Copilot AI commented Dec 19, 2025

@copilot ScanNamespaceForFunctions(
assembly.GlobalNamespace, this can be a performance concern right

Fixed in 9f8c8ed. Removed the duplicate traversal - previously ShouldScanAssembly would traverse the namespace tree to check for Durable symbols, then ScanNamespaceForFunctions would traverse it again to collect function names. Now we only traverse once via ScanNamespaceForFunctions. IsSystemAssembly already filters out most assemblies, so scanning remaining user assemblies is acceptable.

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YunchuWang commented Dec 19, 2025

this is too fragile to check referenced assemlibes

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YunchuWang commented Dec 19, 2025

closing

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