Calamity

An event-sourcing library with a focus on pure functions and protocols.

Calamity is structured similarly to Commanded, and it is a goal of this project to support Commanded components via structs implementing Calamity protocols.

Useful implementations of these protocols are not currently provided. Calamity only dispatches commands to the given aggregate and process manager stores, and you must provide the stores yourself.

This project is in the experimental stage; do not use it in production.

Usage

Using Calamity means implementing a few protocols and behaviors. See test/support for a simplified example of how to use this library in a single process.

Aggregates

To create an aggregate, use the :aggregate macro available in the main Calamity module, then implement the Calamity.Aggregate protocol.

defmodule MyApp.BankAccount do
  use Calamity, :aggregate

  defstruct [
    ...
  ]

  def new(id) do
    ...
  end

  defimpl Calamity.Aggregate do
    ...
  end
end

Aggregate Stores

To update and store aggregates, the Calamity.dispatch/5 function requires a struct implementing the Access protocol. Aggregates must be accessed by ID and return a struct implementing the Calamity.Aggregate protocol.

Calamity uses Access.get_and_update/3 to transactionally update the aggregate in the store and return events. This means that Calamity supports aggregates stored in GenServers as well as simple maps.

Read guides/plugins.md for examples of aggregate and process manager stores, as well as an over-simplified list store for events.

Events

Events need no protocol, so you can use plain structs.

defmodule MyApp.Events.AccountCreated do
  defstruct [
    ...
  ]
end

Commands

Commands must implement the Calamity.Command protocol.

defmodule MyApp.Commands.DepositFunds do
  defstruct [
    ...
  ]

  defimpl Calamity.Command do
    ...
  end
end

Process Managers

Process managers must use the :process_manager macro available in the main Calamity module, then implement the Calamity.ProcessManager protocol.

defmodule MyApp.ProcessManagers.Transfer do
  use Calamity, :process_manager

  defstruct [
    ...
  ]

  def new(pm_id) do
    ...
  end

  def interested?(event) do
    ...
  end

  defimpl Calamity.ProcessManager do
    ...
  end
end

Process Manager Stores

Active process managers are stored in a multi-level data structure that must implement the Access protocol. The first level maps modules to collections of process managers implementing that module, and the second level maps IDs to specific process manager structs. If you were to use Maps, the process manager store would look like this:

%{
  MyApp.ProcessManagers.TransferFunds => %{
    "b0bda821-4bdd-4e27-ad95-f504b00a1282" => %MyApp.ProcessManagers.TransferFunds{id: ...}
  }
}

Calamity uses Access.get_and_update/3 to transactionally update the process manager store and return commands. This means that Calamity supports process managers stored in GenServers as well as simple maps.

Read guides/plugins.md for examples of aggregate and process manager stores, as well as an over-simplified list store for events.

Dispatching Events

Events are dispatched using Calamity.dispatch/5. Since Calamity uses pure functions and tries to minimize process count, all components of the system must be passed to dispatch/5, and it will return updated versions of those arguments.

The arguments to dispatch/5 are:

1. The command (implementing the Calamity.Command protocol)
2. The aggregate store (implementing the Access protocol)
3. An enumerable of process manager modules (that use Calamity, :process_manager)
4. The process manager store (implementing Access at two levels, see above)
5. The event store (implementing the Calamity.EventStore and Collectable protocols)

This example is taken from Calamity's tests. It is dispatching the RequestTransfer command to an aggregate store containing two aggregates. The Transfer process manager is used, but there are currently no active process managers. Last, the ListEventStore is used to store and publish events.

Calamity.dispatch(
  %Calamity.Commands.RequestTransfer{from: "1", to: "2", amount: 100, transfer_id: "asdfasdfasdf"},
  %{
    "1" => %Calamity.BankAccount{account_id: "1", name: "From account", balance: 100},
    "2" => %Calamity.BankAccount{account_id: "2", name: "To account", balance: 0}
  },
  [Calamity.ProcessManagers.Transfer],
  %{},
  %Calamity.ListEventStore{}
)

This will return a tuple containing the updated aggregate store, the updated process manager store, and the updated event store.

{new_aggregates, new_process_managers, event_store}

This library does not implement its own event store or aggregate store. If you're just getting started, use maps like in the examples, and wrap calls in a GenServer to ensure sequential access.

Read guides/plugins.md for examples of aggregate and process manager stores, as well as an over-simplified list store for events.

Maintainer

This project was developed by Rosa Richter. You can get in touch with her on Keybase.io.

Contributing

Questions and pull requests are more than welcome. I follow Elixir's tenet of bad documentation being a bug, so if anything is unclear, please file an issue or ask on the mailing list! Ideally, my answer to your question will be in an update to the docs.

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for all the details you could ever want about helping me with this project.

Note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

License

MIT License

Copyright 2021 Rosa Richter

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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