Remove forced DispatchConsistency.Isolated for outbox operations

[Copilot]

Outbox was forcing DispatchConsistency.Isolated on all operations, preventing transports from batching messages. This was redundant - the outbox already enforces TransportTransactionMode.ReceiveOnly, which by definition prevents enlistment in receive transactions.

Changes

• Removed ForceBatchDispatchToBeIsolatedBehavior - Deleted behavior class and its pipeline registration
• Updated TransportReceiveToPhysicalMessageConnector - Changed outbox operation dispatch consistency from Isolated to Default
• Updated Outbox.cs comments - Clarified that ReceiveOnly mode already provides isolation guarantees

Impact

Transports supporting batching (Azure Service Bus, Amazon SQS) can now batch outbox operations, reducing latency and message operation costs.

// Before: Each operation dispatched individually
operation.RequiredDispatchConsistency = DispatchConsistency.Isolated;

// After: Transport decides batching strategy
operation.RequiredDispatchConsistency = DispatchConsistency.Default;

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This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>Outbox prevents transports from batching outgoing messages</issue_title>
<issue_description>When outbox is enabled, all outgoing messages are forced to use DispatchConsistency.Isolated. This causes transports that support batching, at the time of writing, Azure Service Bus and Amazon SQS, not to use batching but rather send messages one by one. This leads to increased latency and higher costs since the number of message operations increases.

This behavior should not be needed since the outbox will force the transport transaction mode to be ReceiveOnly, which by definition prevents outgoing messages from being enlisted in the receive transaction.

Expected behavior

Dispatch consistency NOT changed on outgoing messages when the outbox is enabled.

Actual behavior

Dispatch consistency changed to DispatchConsistency.Isolated on outgoing messages when the outbox is enabled.

Versions

All supported versions.

Steps to reproduce

Enable the outbox, send more than one message using either Azure ServiceBus or Amazon SQS. Notice that batching is not used.

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Additional Information

Workarounds

Possible solutions

Additional information

</issue_description>

<agent_instructions>fix this bug and add proper tests and acceptance test following the conventions already use in the code. Ping @andreasohlund and me as a reviewer when done.</agent_instructions>

Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

@andreasohlund We have reviewed this bug and added it to our bug fix queue. However, there is no ETA for when we will get to this bug as it may be prioritized behind other, more urgent, bugs. We will update this issue when it has a team assigned and work begins. @andreasohlund @bbrandt it has always existed

• Fixes Outbox prevents transports from batching outgoing messages #7509

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[danielmarbach]

@copilot try again

[andreasohlund]

How do we deal with users that was "relying" on this behavior like. https://discuss.particular.net/t/azure-service-bus-large-number-of-commands-outbox/4483

Do we need to make this opt-in for sometime?

[bbrandt]

How do we deal with users that was "relying" on this behavior like. https://discuss.particular.net/t/azure-service-bus-large-number-of-commands-outbox/4483

Do we need to make this opt-in for sometime?

Maybe we'd want to allow tuning of the message batch size when using outbox? When sending messages with outbox we can prioritize performance since we are not batching for reasons of transactional consistency, maybe?

[danielmarbach]

Maybe we'd want to allow tuning of the message batch size when using outbox? When sending messages with outbox we can prioritize performance since we are not batching for reasons of transactional consistency, maybe?

That's interesting 🤔 today we don't have a concept of batching in core. We basically hand over either everything or what you immediate dispatch to the transport and then the transport figures out the rest. So if we preserve that for now the batch all mode probably needs to be opt-in in a minor and later become the default in a major with an enforce immediate dispatch option or in the future batch size support (larger change)

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