defprotocol Commanded.Event.Upcaster do
@moduledoc """
Protocol to allow an event to be transformed before being passed to a
consumer.
You can use an upcaster to change the shape of an event (e.g. add a new field
with a default, rename a field) or rename an event.
Because the upcaster changes any historical event to the latest version,
consumers (aggregates, event handlers, and process managers) only need
to support the latest version.
## Example
defimpl Commanded.Event.Upcaster, for: AnEvent do
def upcast(%AnEvent{} = event, _metadata) do
%AnEvent{name: name} = event
%AnEvent{event | first_name: name}
end
end
## Metadata
The `upcast/2` function receives the domain event and a map of metadata
associated with that event. The metadata is provided during command dispatch.
In addition to the metadata key/values you provide, the following system
values will be included in the metadata:
- `application` - the `Commanded.Application` used to read the event.
- `event_id` - a globally unique UUID to identify the event.
- `event_number` - a globally unique, monotonically incrementing integer
used to order the event amongst all events.
- `stream_id` - the stream identity for the event.
- `stream_version` - the version of the stream for the event.
- `causation_id` - an optional UUID identifier used to identify which
command caused the event.
- `correlation_id` - an optional UUID identifier used to correlate related
commands/events.
- `created_at` - the datetime, in UTC, indicating when the event was
created.
These key/value metadata pairs will use atom keys to differentiate them from
the user provided metadata which uses string keys.
"""
@fallback_to_any true
@spec upcast(event :: struct(), metadata :: map()) :: struct()
def upcast(event, metadata)
end
defimpl Commanded.Event.Upcaster, for: Any do
@moduledoc """
The default implementation of the `Commanded.Event.Upcaster`.
This will return an event unchanged.
"""
def upcast(event, _metadata), do: event
end