Fix: Supply another mechanism for event naming

[rasmus]

As mentioned in #903, events with the same name created in different namespaces will collide. While there is a workaround using [EventVersion], the OOB experience should be that it should merely work.

An idea would be to create some settings that developers are forced to do during EventFlow initialization, like selecting the naming for events. Then introduce a new naming convention named NamespaceAndClassName along side the existing ClassName naming.

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[SeWaS]

Hello there 👋

I was thinking a bit about that problem recently. Let's see if I got that right: Wouldn't the EventDefinitionService be a potential place to apply such a naming strategy?

More precisely, as the method CreateDefinition(int version, Type type, string name) gets a version, type and name (either the event's classname or the value coming from the EventVersionAttribute) already injected, we could use those parameters, forward them to a strategy and get a strategy-applied eventname. Depending on the strategy, we might want to construct a name based on those values.

A default strategy could then be something like a VoidStrategy which simply returns the given name. That is the current behavior and thus would not introduce a breaking change. A NamespaceAndClassName strategy could be provided as a built-in strategy which had to explicitly be picked when configuring EventFlow. It would also be possible to allow devs to implement their own strategy and apply it.

Bottom line, the EventDefinitionService could look something like this:

protected override EventDefinition CreateDefinition(int version, Type type, string name)
{
    var strategyAppliedName = _eventFlowConfiguration.EventNamingStrategy
        .CreateEventName(version, type, name);
            
    return new EventDefinition(version, type, strategyAppliedName);
}

Hope that makes sense 😅 Any opinions or objections?