# Eventful
Eventful is a library for anyone who needs a trackable state machine. With transitions and triggers and guards.
## Installation
If [available in Hex](https://hex.pm/docs/publish), the package can be installed
by adding `eventful` to your list of dependencies in `mix.exs`:
```elixir
def deps do
[
{:eventful, "~> 0.2.0"}
]
end
```
### Current State
You will need to create a `:current_state` field in your model
```elixir
schema "posts" do
field :current_state, :string, default: "draft"
end
# migration
alter table(:posts) do
field :current_state, :string, default: "draft", null: false
end
```
### Event Schema
Generally your events table will be used to track events for a specific model you have. Let's assume that in this case we have `MyApp.Post` and `MyApp.User` as the authenticated user in our app.
We may create something like this.
```elixir
defmodule MyApp.Post.Event do
alias MyApp.{
Post,
User
}
use Eventful,
parent: {:post, Post},
actor: {:user, User}
end
```
### Migration
Generate a migration file for your events like this.
```elixir
defmodule MyApp.Repo.Migrations.CreatePostEvents do
use Ecto.Migration
def change do
create table(:post_events) do
add(:name, :string, null: false)
add(:domain, :string, null: false)
add(:metadata, :map, default: "{}")
add(
:post_id,
references(:posts, on_delete: :restrict),
null: false
)
add(
:user_id,
references(:users, on_delete: :restrict),
null: false
)
timestamps()
end
create(index(:post_events, [:post_id]))
create(index(:post_events, [:user_id]))
end
end
```
### Transitions
The next thing is defining a `Transitions` module
```elixir
defmodule MyApp.Post.Transitions do
alias MyApp.Post
@behaviour Eventful.Handler
use Eventful.Transition, repo: MyApp.Repo
Post
|> transition(
[from: "draft", to: "reviewing", via: "review"],
fn changes -> transit(changes) end)
)
Post
|> transition(
[from: "reviewing", to: "published", via: "publish"],
fn changes -> transit(changes) end)
)
end
```
and specify the transition module for the schema
```elixir
defmodule MyApp.Post do
use Ecto.Schema
use Eventful.Transitable, transitions_module: __MODULE__.Transitions
schema "posts" do
field :current_state, :string, default: "draft"
end
end
```
### Event Handler
You will now need to add the Transitions Handler to your Event module
```elixir
defmodule MyApp.Post.Event do
alias MyApp.{
Post,
User
}
use Eventful,
parent: {:post, Post},
actor: {:user, User}
handle(:transitions, using: Post.Transitions)
end
```
### Transitioning from State to State
```elixir
MyApp.Post.Event.handle(post, user, %{domain: "transitions", name: "review"})
```
This will now transition and track your model and also track who did it.
### Triggers
Triggers allow to run code whenever a transition has been made to a specific state
```elixir
defmodule MyApp.Post.Triggers do
alias MyApp.Post
use Eventful.Trigger
Post
|> trigger([currently: "reviewing"], fn event, post ->
# user code
end)
end
```
In order for the triggers to execute, you need to pass your custom `Triggers` module to the `transit/2` function
```elixir
defmodule MyApp.Post.Transitions do
alias MyApp.Post
@behaviour Eventful.Handler
use Eventful.Transition, repo: MyApp.Repo
Post
|> transition(
[from: "draft", to: "reviewing", via: "review"],
fn changes -> transit(changes, Post.Triggers) end)
)
end
```
### Guards
You may add guards allowing to validate an event for a particular resource and an actor (user or system originating the event). Guards are added into the transitions module.
The guards should either return `{:ok, :passed}` if the validation passed. Anything else will be considered as an error.
```elixir
defmodule MyApp.Post.Transitions do
alias MyApp.Post
@behaviour Eventful.Handler
use Eventful.Transition, repo: MyApp.Repo
Post
|> transition(
[from: "draft", to: "reviewing", via: "review"],
fn changes -> transit(changes, Post.Triggers) end)
)
defp guard_transition(%Post{current_state: _current_state} = post, _originator, "review") do
if MyApp.check_something(post),
do: {:ok, :passed},
else: {:error, :failed}
end
defp guard_transition(_activity, _originator, _), do: {:ok, :passed}
end
```
Documentation can be generated with [ExDoc](https://github.com/elixir-lang/ex_doc)
and published on [HexDocs](https://hexdocs.pm). Once published, the docs can
be found at [https://hexdocs.pm/eventful](https://hexdocs.pm/eventful).
