Laravel Action

Single action class for Laravel to keep your application DRY. Each action encapsulates one business operation, receives its input through the constructor, and resolves services automatically via Laravel's container.

Requirements

• PHP 8.2+
• Laravel 9 – 13

Installation

composer require laraditz/action

Creating an Action

Use the Artisan command to generate an action class (placed in app/Actions/ by default):

php artisan make:action CreateNewPost

Fill in the generated file:

namespace App\Actions;

use App\Models\Post;
use Laraditz\Action\Action;

class CreateNewPost extends Action
{
    public function __construct(
        public string $title,
        public string $body,
    ) {}

    public function handle(): Post
    {
        return Post::create($this->data());
    }
}

Running an Action

Instance style — construct first, then call run():

$post = (new CreateNewPost(title: 'Hello', body: 'World'))->run();

Static style — constructor arguments are passed directly to run():

$post = CreateNewPost::run(title: 'Hello', body: 'World');

Both styles are equivalent.

Dependency Injection

Type-hint services in handle() and Laravel's container injects them automatically:

namespace App\Actions;

use App\Mail\PostCreated;
use App\Models\Post;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Mail\Mailer;
use Laraditz\Action\Action;

class PublishPost extends Action
{
    public function __construct(
        public string $title,
        public string $body,
        public string $authorEmail,
    ) {}

    public function handle(Mailer $mailer): Post
    {
        $post = Post::create($this->data());

        $mailer->to($this->authorEmail)->send(new PostCreated($post));

        return $post;
    }
}

// $mailer is resolved from the container automatically
PublishPost::run(
    title: 'My Post',
    body: 'Content here',
    authorEmail: '[email protected]',
);

Queue Support

Make an action queueable by implementing ShouldQueue and adding the standard Laravel queue traits. Do not add Dispatchable — the base Action class already provides dispatch().

namespace App\Actions;

use App\Mail\WelcomeEmail;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Mail\Mailer;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Queue\InteractsWithQueue;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
use Laraditz\Action\Action;

class SendWelcomeEmail extends Action implements ShouldQueue
{
    use Queueable, InteractsWithQueue, SerializesModels;

    public function __construct(
        public string $email,
        public string $name,
    ) {}

    public function handle(Mailer $mailer): void
    {
        $mailer->to($this->email)->send(new WelcomeEmail($this->name));
    }
}

Dispatching to the queue:

// Using the base class static dispatch()
SendWelcomeEmail::dispatch(email: '[email protected]', name: 'Alice');

// Using Laravel's global helper
dispatch(new SendWelcomeEmail(email: '[email protected]', name: 'Alice'));

When the queue worker processes the job, Laravel's CallQueuedHandler calls handle() through the container, so type-hinted dependencies are injected automatically — the same as when running synchronously.

Note: Do not add use Illuminate\Foundation\Bus\Dispatchable to your action class. The base Action class already provides dispatch(), and adding the trait will cause a conflict.

The data() Helper

data() returns all constructor-promoted properties as a key–value array, which is handy for mass-assignment:

public function handle(): Post
{
    // Returns ['title' => '...', 'body' => '...']
    return Post::create($this->data());
}

Actions with no constructor return an empty array from data().

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email [email protected] instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits

• Raditz Farhan

License

MIT. Please see the license file for more information.