Repository

Repositories are used for retrieving and saving the aggregate to persistent storage.

Aggregate need to be loaded in order to call method on it. Normally the flow for calling aggregate method, would looks like below. Which involves having handling service with access to repository.

class AssignWorkerCommmand
{
    private string $ticketId;
    
    private string $workerId;
    
    public function getTicketId() : string;
    {
       return $this->ticketId;
    }
    
    public function getWorkerId() : string
    {
       return $this->workerId;
    }
}
​
​
class CloseTicketHandler
{
    private TicketRepository $ticketRepository;
​
    #[CommandHandler]
    public function handle(CreateTicketCommand $command) : void
    {
       $ticket = $this->ticketRepository->findBy($command->getTicketId());
       $ticket->assignWorker($command->getWorkerId());
       $this->ticketRepository->save($ticket);    
    }
}
​
class Ticket
{
    public function assignWorker(string $workerId)
    {
       // do something with assignation
    }
}

Ecotone provides possibility to mark Ticket Aggregate methods as CommandHandler directly. In that situation, Ecotone retrievies identifiers from Command message, pass them to Repository, calls the method on aggregate instance and saves it. In short it does code from CreateTicketCommand Handler for you.

To get more details how to implement Aggregate, go to previous pages:

How to implement Repository

There are two types of repositories. One for storing State-Stored Aggregate and another one for storing Event Sourcing Aggregate.

Based on which interface is implemented, Ecotone knows which Aggregate type was selected. The interface informs, if specific Repository can handle given Aggregate class. You may implement

Repository for State-Stored Aggregate

namespace Ecotone\Modelling;
​
interface StandardRepository
{
    
    1 public function canHandle(string $aggregateClassName): bool; 
    
    2 public function findBy(string $aggregateClassName, array $identifiers) : ?object;
    
    3 public function save(array $identifiers, object $aggregate, array $metadata, ?int $expectedVersion): void;
}

1. canHandle method informs, which Aggregate Classes can be handled with this Repository. Return true, if saving specific aggregate is possible, false otherwise.

2. findBy method returns if found, existing Aggregate instance, otherwise null.

3. save method is reponsible for storing given Aggregate instance.

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• $identifiers are array of @AggregateIdentifier defined within aggregate.

• $aggregate is instance of aggregate

• $metadata is array of extra information, that can be passed with Command

• $expectedVersion if version locking by @Version is enabled it will carry currently expected version

Repository for Event Sourced Aggregate

namespace Ecotone\Modelling;
​
interface EventSourcedRepository
{
    public function canHandle(string $aggregateClassName): bool;
    
    1 public function findBy(string $aggregateClassName, array $identifiers) :  EventStream;
​
    2 public function save(array $identifiers, string $aggregateClassName, array $events, array $metadata, int $versionBeforeHandling): void;
}

Event Sourced Repository instead of working with aggregate instance, works with events.

1. findBy method returns previously created events for given aggregate.

2. save method gets array of events to save returned by CommandHandler after performing an action