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Small naming-convention based CQRS library for PHP (loosely based on LiteCQRS for C#) that relies on the Message Bus, Command, Event and Domain Event patterns.

Terminology

CQS is Command-Query-Separation: A paradigm where read methods never change state and write methods never return data. Build on top, CQRS suggests the separation of read- from write-model and uses the DomainEvent pattern to notify the read model about changes in the write model.

LiteCQRS uses the command pattern and a central message bus service that finds the corresponding handler to execute a command. A command is just a class with some properties describing it, it can optionally implement LiteCQRS\Command.

During the execution of a command, domain events can be triggered. These are again just simple classes with some properties and they can optionally implement LiteCQRS\DomainEvent.

An event queue knows what domain events have been triggered during a command and then publishes them to an event message bus, where many listeners can listen to them.

Changes

From 1.0 to 1.1

Extending LiteCQRS\Command and LiteCQRS\DomainEvent is NOT required anymore. In fact you can use any class as command or event. The naming conventions alone make sure command handlers and event listeners are detected.
JMS Serializer Plugin cannot "detach" aggregate root properties that are part of an event that is serialized anymore. Putting related aggregate roots into an Event is therefore not supported anymore (and not a good idea even with JMS Serializer 0.9 anyways).

Conventions

All public methods of a command handler class are mapped to Commands "Command Class Shortname" => "MethodName" when the method and command class shortname match. Implementing an interface for the commands is NOT required (since 1.1)
Domain Events are applied to Event Handlers "Event Class Shortname" => "onEventClassShortname". Only if this matches is an event listener registered.
Domain Events are applied on Entities/Aggregate Roots "Event Class Shortname" => "applyEventClassShortname"
You can optionally extend the DefaultDomainEvent which has a constructor that maps its array input to properties and throws an exception if an unknown property is passed.
There is also a DefaultCommand with the same semantics as DefaultDomainEvent. Extending this is not required.

Examples:

HelloWorld\GreetingCommand maps to the greeting(GreetingCommand $command) method on the registered handler.
HelloWorld\Commands\Greeting maps to the greeting(Greeting $command) method on the registered handler.
HelloWorld\GreetedEvent is passed to all event handlers that have a method onGreeted(GreetedEvent $event).
HelloWorld\Events\Greeted is passed to all event handlers that have a method onGreeted(Greeted $event).
HelloWorld\GreetedEvent is delegated to applyGreeted($event) when created on the aggregate root

Installation & Requirements

The core library has no dependencies on other libraries. Plugins have dependencies on their specific libraries.

Install with Composer:

{
    "require": {
        "beberlei/lite-cqrs": "dev-master"
    }
}

Workflow

These are the steps that a command regularly takes through the LiteCQRS stack during execution:

You push commands into a CommandBus. Commands are simple objects extending Command created by you.
The CommandBus checks for a handler that can execute your command. Every command has exactly one handler.
The command handler changes state of the domain model. It does that by creating events (that represent state change) and passing them to the AggregateRoot::apply() or DomainEventProvider::raise() method of your domain objects.
When the command is completed, the command bus will check all objects in the identity map for events.
All found events will be passed to the EventMessageBus#publish() method.
The EventMessageBus dispatches all events to observing event handlers.
Event Handlers can create new commands again using the CommandBus.

Command and Event handler execution can be wrapped in handlers that manage transactions. Event handling is always triggered outside of any command transaction. If the command fails with any exception all events created by the command are forgotten/ignored. No event handlers will be triggered in this case.

In the case of InMemory CommandBus and EventMessageBus LiteCQRS makes sure that the execution of command and event handlers is never nested, but in sequential linearized order. This prevents independent transactions for each command from affecting each other.

Examples

See examples/ for some examples:

example1.php shows usage of the Command- and EventMessageBus with one domain object
example2_event.php shows direct usage of the EventMessageBus inside a command
example3_sequential_commands.php demonstrates how commands are processed sequentially.
tictactoe.php implements a tic tac toe game with CQRS.
SymfonyExample.md shows example1.php implemented within the scope of a Symfony2 project.

Setup

In Memory Command Handlers, no event publishing/observing

<?php
$userService = new UserService();

$commandBus = new DirectCommandBus()
$commandBus->register('MyApp\ChangeEmailCommand', $userService);

In Memory Commands and Events Handlers

This uses LiteCQRS\EventProviderInterface instances to trigger domain events.

<?php
// 1. Setup the Library with InMemory Handlers
$messageBus = new InMemoryEventMessageBus();
$identityMap = new SimpleIdentityMap();
$queue = new EventProviderQueue($identityMap);
$commandBus = new DirectCommandBus(array(
    new EventMessageHandlerFactory($messageBus, $queue)
));

// 2. Register a command service and an event handler
$userService = new UserService($identityMap);
$commandBus->register('MyApp\ChangeEmailCommand', $userService);

$someEventHandler = new MyEventHandler();
$messageBus->register($someEventHandler);

In Memory Commands + Custom Event Queue

LiteCQRS knows about triggered events by asking LiteCQRS\Bus\EventQueue. Provide your own implementation to be independent of your domain objects having to implement EventProviderInterface.

<?php
$messageBus = new InMemoryEventMessageBus();
$queue = new MyCustomEventQueue();

$commandBus = new DirectCommandBus(array(
    new EventMessageHandlerFactory($messageBus, $queue)
));

Usage

To implement a Use Case of your application

Create a command object that receives all the necessary input values. Use public properties and extend LiteCQRS\DefaultCommand to simplify.
Add a new method with the name of the command to any of your services (command handler)
Register the command handler to handle the given command on the CommandBus.
Have your entities implement LiteCQRS\AggregateRoot or LiteCQRS\DomainEventProvider
Use protected method raise(DomainEvent $event) or apply(DomainEvent $event)`` to attach events to your aggregate root objects.

That is all there is for simple use-cases.

If your command triggers events that listeners check for, you should:

Create a domain specific event class. Use public properties to simplify.
Create a event handler(s) or add method(s) to existing event handler(s).

While it seems "complicated" to create commands and events for every use-case. These objects are really dumb and only contain public properties. Using your IDE or editor functionality you can easily generate them in no time. In turn, they will make your code very explicit.

Difference between apply() and raise()

There are two ways to publish events to the outside world.

DomainEventProvider#raise(DomainEvent $event) is the simple one, it emits an event and does nothing more.
AggregateRoot#apply(DomainEvent $event) requires you to add a method apply$eventName($event) that can be used to replay events on objects. This is used to replay an object from events.

If you don't use event sourcing then you are fine just using raise() and ignoring apply() altogether.

Automatic Event Publishing from IdentityMap

You have to implement a mechanism to fill the IdentityMapInterface. All aggregate root objects in this Identity Map will have their Events stored and published through EventMessageBus. All other events will be forgotten!

Example: The Doctrine ORM Plugin has an implementation of the `IdentityMapInterface``.

Command/Event Handler Proxies

If you want to wrap the command/event handling inside custom logic, you have to extend the MessageHandlerInterface and pass a proxy factory closure/invokable object into the MessageHandlerInterface.

If you want to log all commands:

<?php
use LiteCQRS\Bus\MessageHandlerInterface;

class CommandLogger implements MessageHandlerInterface
{
    private $next;

    public function __construct(MessageHandlerInterface $next)
    {
        $this->next = $next;
    }

    public function handle($command)
    {
        syslog(LOG_INFO, "Executing: " . get_class($command));
        $this->next->handle($command);
    }
}

And register:

<?php
$loggerProxyFactory = function($handler) {
    return new CommandLogger($handler);
};
$commandBus = new DirectCommandBus(array($loggerProxyFactory));

Failing Events

The EventMessageBus prevents exceptions from bubbling up. To allow some debugging of failed event handler execution there is a special event "EventExecutionFailed" that you can listen to. You will get passed an instance of LiteCQRS\Bus\EventExecutionFailed with properties $exception, $service and $event to allow analysing failures in your application.

Extension Points

You should implement your own CommandBus or extend the existing to wire the whole process together exactly as you need it to work.

Plugins

Doctrine

Doctrine Plugin ships with transactional wrapper handlers for Commands and Events:

LiteCQRS\Plugin\Doctrine\MessageHandler\DbalTransactionalHandler
LiteCQRS\Plugin\Doctrine\MessageHandler\OrmTransactionalHandler

Also to synchronize the events to event message bus you can use the DoctrineIdentityMap:

LiteCQRS\Plugin\Doctrine\DoctrineIdentityMap

It also ships with an implementation of DomainEventProviderRepositoryInterface wrapping the EntityManager:

LiteCQRS\Plugin\Doctrine\ORMRepository

Silex

Silex plugin ships with a CommandBus and a EventMessageBus that knows how to get services out of your Silex application as well as a ServiceProvider. The ServiceProvider adds the most basic services to get LiteCQRS to run.

To enable the service provider register it on your application:

<?php
$app->register(new LiteCQRS\Plugin\Silex\Provider\LiteCQRSServiceProvider());

lite_cqrs.commands is automatically injected into the ApplicationCommandBus. So to add Commands to the bus extend the service with:

<?php

$app['lite_cqrs.commands'] = array_merge($app['lite_cqrs.commands'], array(
    'MyCustom\\SearchCommand' => 'search_handler',
));

Remember that the key have to be the Command class and the value must be the service id that have the right handler method implemented.

To add a EventHandler for a specific event it is needed to call registerServices on the lite_cqrs.event_bus service.

The array given to registerServices must look like:

<?php

$eventServices = array(
    'EventName' => 'service_id_id', // or
    'AnotherEvent => array(
        'service_id_1',
        'service_id_2',
    ),
);

Symfony

Inside symfony you can use LiteCQRS by registering services with lite_cqrs.command_handler or the lite_cqrs.event_handler tag. These services are then autodiscovered for commands and events. You can also add proxy message handler factories for tags. For both commands and events the tags are lite_cqrs.event_proxy_factory and lite_cqrs.command_proxy_factory respectively.

Container Aware implementations of CommandBus and EventMessageBus implement lazy loading of all command- and event handlers for better performance.

To enable the bundle put the following in your Kernel:

new \LiteCQRS\Plugin\SymfonyBundle\LiteCQRSBundle(),

You can enable/disable the different plugins by adding the following to your config.yml:

lite_cqrs:
    orm:                    true
    swift_mailer:           true
    monolog:                true
    jms_serializer:         true
    crud:                   true
    dbal_event_store:       true
    couchdb_event_store:    true
    couchdb_odm:            true

Please refer to the SymfonyExample.md document for a full demonstration of using LiteCQRS from within a Symfony2 project.

Swiftmailer

The Swiftmailer Plugin allows you to defer the sending of mails until after a command or event handler has actually finished successfully.

LiteCQRS\Plugin\Swiftmailer\SpoolTransportHandler

You need a spool transport and a real transport instance for this. The Spool transport queues all messages and the transport handler sends all messages through the real transport, if the command/event handler was executed successfully.

Monolog

A plugin that logs the execution of every command and handler using Monolog. It includes the type and name of the message, its parameters as json and if its execution succeeded or failed.

The Monolog integration into Symfony registers a specific channel lite_cqrs which you can configure differently from the default channels in Symfony. See the Symfony cookbook for more information.

JMS Serializer

WARNING: This plugin does not work with JMS Serializer 0.10 and up, disable it with serializer: false in Symfony.

A plugin that uses JMS Serializer to serialize events to JSON. This is necessary for advanced logging of your events. It uses a custom type handler to convert aggregate root objects in the events into references and fetches them again on reconstruction. This way you don't serialize graphs of data into the event store.

Doctrine CouchDB

A plugin that contains a CouchDB EventStore and Transactional Handler for Doctrine CouchDB ODM.

CRUD

While normally CRUD and CQRS don't match, if you use Doctrine as a primary data-source in the write model then with PHPs dynamic capabilities, you can decently do CRUD with LiteCQRS and this plugin.

Using AggregateResource abstract class or the CrudCreatable, CrudUpdatable and CrudDeletable traits you can implement CRUD functionality. This is possible to three commands:

LiteCQRS\Plugin\CRUD\Model\Commands\CreateResourceCommand
LiteCQRS\Plugin\CRUD\Model\Commands\UpdateResourceCommand
LiteCQRS\Plugin\CRUD\Model\Commands\DeleteResourceCommand

They have $class, $id and $data properties. On the Create and Update commands, the ```$datais applied to the model using mass assignment. You have to make sure this is a safe operation for your models by implementing theapply*()`` methods yourself instead of relying on the mass assignment.

After processing one of the following three domain events is emitted:

LiteCQRS\Plugin\CRUD\Model\Events\ResourceCreatedEvent
LiteCQRS\Plugin\CRUD\Model\Events\ResourceUpdatedEvent
LiteCQRS\Plugin\CRUD\Model\Events\ResourceDeletedEvent

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