A concurrent update was performed on this collection and corrupted its state. The collection's state is no longer correct.

[codingyourlife]

We get this error log:
System.InvalidOperationException
Operations that change non-concurrent collections must have exclusive access. A concurrent update was performed on this collection and corrupted its state. The collection's state is no longer correct.

In this line:
return Imagekit.Url(new Transformation()).Path(fileDownloadRequest.ObjectName).Generate();

ChatGPT suggests:

lock (_lockObject)
{
    return Imagekit.Url(new Transformation()).Path(fileDownloadRequest.ObjectName).Generate();
}

But ChatGPT also says:
It seems like you're facing a concurrency issue with the Imagekit.Url method or the underlying collection that it uses. This is common in multi-threaded applications where multiple threads attempt to modify a non-concurrent collection simultaneously.

-> To me it sounds like this is an issue about multithreading inside of your library. The lock statement might have a big performance downside.

I also pasted the content of your ImageKitParams.cs to ChatGPT and asked if it can spot the error. It suggests this part:

if (this.options.ContainsKey(key))
{
    this.options[key] = value;
    if (key == "transformation")
    {
        this.options.Remove("path");
        this.options.Remove("src");
    }
}
else
{
    this.options.Add(key, value);
}

Solution suggestions:

1. You can make the this.options dictionary thread-safe by using ConcurrentDictionary instead of a regular Dictionary. This would entail modifying all dictionary operations to use methods provided by ConcurrentDictionary like TryAdd, TryRemove, etc.
2. Another way is to use locking (as I showed in my previous answer) to synchronize access to the this.options dictionary.

Proposed solution in code:
using System.Collections.Concurrent;

namespace Imagekit
{
    public partial class BaseImagekit<T>
    {
        // Assuming this is declared somewhere in your class
        private ConcurrentDictionary<string, object> options = new ConcurrentDictionary<string, object>();

        public T Add(string key, object value)
        {
            options.AddOrUpdate(key, value, (existingKey, existingValue) => 
            {
                if (key == "transformation")
                {
                    options.TryRemove("path", out _);
                    options.TryRemove("src", out _);
                }
                return value;
            });

            return (T)this;
        }

        // ... rest of the class remains unchanged
    }
}

For us the issue is happening pretty much every day in the background.

[codingyourlife]

@imagekitio can you comment on this?

[samihafidiDLW]

Hello,

I had the same error because I was trying to reuse the ImageKitClient class multiple times (injecting it once). The implementation of the SDK is not ideal since every time you want to generate a URL, you need to instantiate an ImageKitClient class. This is because the options are stored in a dictionary shared within the same object. Consequently, even if you use a concurrent dictionary, you could end up with options you didn't ask for.

I believe the ImageKitClient should have a static method to generate URLs so it can be reused, but that would require a significant change in the SDK.

I was not using the RestClient since I only needed to generate image URLs in my project. Therefore, I didn't want to create an HttpClient instance for each image URL I wanted to generate. What I did was create a custom implementation of the BaseImagekit (public abstract class). Here is what I did:

public class CustomImageKit : BaseImagekit<CustomImageKit>
{
    public CustomImageKit(string publicKey, string privateKey, string urlEndPoint)
        : base(privateKey, urlEndPoint, "path")
    {
        this.Add("privateKey", privateKey);
        this.Add("publicKey", publicKey);
    }
}

With this approach, you can create a new instance each time, and the dictionary of options will be used for only one image, thereby avoiding the error related to concurrent dictionary usage.