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What problem is solved

The purpose of this library is to allow you, in a framework-agnostic way, to introduce some random failure in your PHP-Application. Whether it would be to have some fun or to enforce the resiliency of your system, this library allows you to roll a dice, randomly selecting between a standard set of actions or to create your own actions in order to confuse your client as you prefer.

Getting started

Installation via composer

$ composer require fahrenholz/mayhem:^1.0

Example test

$ cd examples && docker-compose up -d

This will launch a docker container with the official php+apache image and set up a small test website connect to it browsing to http://localhost:8080

Usage

Out of the box

Instantiate

use Mayhem\Entity\Probability;
use Mayhem\Mayhem;
use Mayhem\Failure\LatencyFailure;
use Mayhem\Failure\RedirectFailure;

$probabilities = [
    new Probability('prob1', 0.03, LatencyFailure::class),
    new Probability('prob2', 0.01, RedirectFailure::class),
];

$service = new Mayhem($probabilities);

Use

$event = $service->rollADice(); //randomly picks an event or nothing
if ($event !== null) {
    //something will happen
    $failure = $event->getFailureAction(); //instantiate failure
    $failure($event->getParameters()); //invoke failure
}

A word of caution

The CrashFailure shipped with the Library sets loose a forkbomb. Use it with caution in order not to fully crash your development environment.

Extending

There is only a limited set of failures shipped with the library, and they are all untested for a reason: their purpose is to give you a blueprint for implementing your own failure scenarios.

There's only one rule to do that: Every failure scenario must implement FailureInterface.

Contribute

Feel free to contribute and to get in touch with me.

fahrenholz / mayhem

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