README

This light library helps to implement quickly a chain of responsibility. This pattern is especially useful when you need a clear process that involve multiple steps.

Installation

The suggested installation method is via composer:

composer require sroze/chain-of-responsibility

Usage

There's two components:

• The Runner that will take a brunch of processes, decorates them to create the chain-of-responsibility and execute the head.
• The builder adds a little bit of like to processes because they can declare a list of other processes that needs to be run before.

Runner

Create your processes classes that implements the ChainProcessInterface. This interface only has one execute method that take a ChainContext object as parameter. This parameter is usable like an array and will provides your processes a common way to exchange information between them.

use SRIO\ChainOfResponsibility\ChainContext;
use SRIO\ChainOfResponsibility\ChainProcessInterface;

class LambdaProcess implements ChainProcessInterface
{
    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function execute(ChainContext $context)
    {
        // Do whatever you want in this small process, such as
        // sending a mail, manipulating files, ...
    }
}

Create the chain runner with a list of given processes. The list order is quite important since it'll be the order of execution of processes.

$runner = new ChainRunner([
    new FirstProcess(),
    new SecondProcess(),
    new ThirdProcess()
]);

Then, use the run method to run each process, with an optional ChainContext argument.

$runner->run(new ArrayChainContext([
    'foo' => 'bar'
]));

Builder

The builder is able to construct your chain of responsibility based on dependencies between processes. To declare dependencies, your process have to implement the DependentChainProcessInterface interface.

use SRIO\ChainOfResponsibility\ChainContext;
use SRIO\ChainOfResponsibility\DependentChainProcessInterface;

class FooProcess implements DependentChainProcessInterface
{
    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function execute(ChainContext $context)
    {
        // Do whatever you want...
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function getName()
    {
        return 'foo';
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function dependsOn()
    {
        return ['bar'];
    }
}

Then, create another BarProcess which getName method will return bar and its dependsOn will return an empty array.

Create a ChainBuilder by creating an instance of it and pass an array of processes that implement at least the ChainProcessInterface. As the ChainRunner, you also can call the add method to add one or more processes.

$builder = new ChainBuilder([
    new FooProcess(),
    new BarProcess(),
]);

You now can retrieve the chain runner by calling the getRunner method.

$runner = $builder->getRunner();
$runner->run();

We the given previous example, the bar process will be executed before the foo one.

Advanced

Use a custom process decorator

To create the chain, the ChainBuilder decorate your processes with the ChainProcessDecorator class. If you want to use your own decorator to add additional logic such as error recovering or logging, you can easily override the decorator by providing an object that implements DecoratorFactoryInterface.

$decoratorFactory = new DecoratorFactory();
$runner = new ChainRunner([], $decoratorFactory);