Commanded Ecto projections

Read model projections for Commanded CQRS/ES applications using Ecto for persistence.

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Overview

Getting started

You should already have Ecto installed and configured before proceeding. Please follow the Ecto Getting Started guide to get going first.

  1. Add commanded_ecto_projections to your list of dependencies in mix.exs: 

     def deps do
   [
     {:commanded_ecto_projections, "~> 0.5"},
   ]
 end

  2. Configure commanded_ecto_projections with the Ecto repo used by your application: 

     config :commanded_ecto_projections,
   repo: MyApp.Projections.Repo

    Or alternatively in case of umbrella application define it later per projection: 

     defmodule MyApp.ExampleProjector do
   use Commanded.Projections.Ecto,
     name: "example_projection",
     repo: MyApp.Projections.Repo

   ...
 end

  3. Generate an Ecto migration in your app: 

     $ mix ecto.gen.migration create_projection_versions

  4. Modify the generated migration, in priv/repo/migrations, to create the projection_versions table: 

     defmodule CreateProjectionVersions do
   use Ecto.Migration

   def change do
     create table(:projection_versions, primary_key: false) do
       add :projection_name, :text, primary_key: true
       add :last_seen_event_number, :bigint

       timestamps()
     end
   end
 end

  5. Run the Ecto migration: 

     $ mix ecto.migrate

Schema Prefix

When using a prefix for your schemas you might also want to change the prefix for the ProjectionVersion schema. There are two options to do this:

  1. provide a global prefix via the config 
config :commanded_ecto_projections,
  schema_prefix: "example_schema_prefix"
  1. provide the prefix on a projection by projection basis 
defmodule MyApp.ExampleProjector do
  use Commanded.Projections.Ecto,
    name: "example_projection",
    schema_prefix: "example_schema_prefix"
end

Usage

Use Ecto schemas to define your read model:

defmodule ExampleProjection do
  use Ecto.Schema

  schema "example_projections" do
    field :name, :string
  end
end

For each read model you will need to define a module that uses the Commanded.Projections.Ecto macro and configures the domain events to be projected. The :name option passed to the use invocation specifies the name of the subscription to be used. It can be any string that is unique among subscriptions.

The project/2 macro expects the domain event and metadata. You can also use project/1 if you do not need to use the event metadata. Inside the project block you have access to an Ecto.Multi data structure, available as the multi variable, for grouping multiple Repo operations. These will all be executed within a single transaction. You can use Ecto.Multi to insert, update, and delete data.

defmodule MyApp.ExampleProjector do
  use Commanded.Projections.Ecto, name: "example_projection"

  project %AnEvent{name: name}, _metadata do
    Ecto.Multi.insert(multi, :example_projection, %ExampleProjection{name: name})
  end

  project %AnotherEvent{name: name} do
    Ecto.Multi.insert(multi, :example_projection, %ExampleProjection{name: name})
  end
end

If you want to skip a projection event, you can return the multi transation without further modifying it.

project %ItemUpdated{uuid: uuid} = event, _metadata do
  case Repo.get(ItemProjection, uuid) do
    nil -> multi
    item -> Ecto.Multi.update(multi, :item, update_changeset(event, item))
  end
end

Supervision

Your projector module must be included in your application supervision tree:

defmodule MyApp.Projections.Supervisor do
  use Supervisor

  def start_link do
    Supervisor.start_link(__MODULE__, nil)
  end

  def init(_) do
    children = [
      # projections
      worker(MyApp.ExampleProjector, [], id: :projector),
    ]

    supervise(children, strategy: :one_for_one)
  end
end

after_update callback

You can define an after_update/3 function in a projector to be called after each projected event. It receives the event, its associated metadata, and all changes from Ecto.Multi executed in the database transaction.

defmodule MyApp.ExampleProjector do
  use Commanded.Projections.Ecto, name: "example_projection"

  project %AnEvent{name: name} do
    Ecto.Multi.insert(multi, :example_projection, %ExampleProjection{name: name})
  end

  def after_update(event, metadata, changes) do
    # ... use event, metadata, or `Ecto.Multi` changes
    :ok
  end
end

You could use this function to notify subscribers that the read model has been updated (e.g. pub/sub to Phoenix channels).

Rebuilding a projection

The projection_versions table is used to ensure that events are only projected once.

To rebuild a projection you will need to:

  1. Delete the row containing the last seen event for the projection name: 

     delete from projection_versions
 where projection_name = 'example_projection';

  2. Truncate the tables that are being populated by the projection, and restart their identity: 

     truncate table
   example_projections,
   other_projections
 restart identity;

You will also need to reset the event store subscription for the commanded event handler. This is specific to whichever event store you are using.

Contributing

Pull requests to contribute new or improved features, and extend documentation are most welcome. Please follow the existing coding conventions.

You should include unit tests to cover any changes. Run mix test to execute the test suite:

mix deps.get
MIX_ENV=test mix do ecto.create, ecto.migrate
mix test

Contributors

Need help?

Please open an issue if you encounter a problem, or need assistance. You can also seek help in the Gitter chat room for Commanded.

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