Laravel Event Sourcing Laravel Package

title: Commands weight: 13

Our package supports a simple command bus implementation that's able to automatically map commands to aggregate roots. If you want to use dedicated command objects, this can be a useful feature in order to prevent much boilerplate for writing command handlers. It's also possible to manually create command handlers if you want to.

A command looks like this:

namespace Spatie\Shop\Cart\Commands;

use Spatie\Shop\Support\EventSourcing\Attributes\AggregateUuid;
use Spatie\Shop\Support\EventSourcing\Attributes\HandledBy;

#[HandledBy(CartAggregateRoot::class)]
class AddCartItem
{
    public function __construct(
        #[AggregateUuid] public string $cartUuid,
        public string $cartItemUuid,
        public Product $product,
        public int $amount,
    ) {
    }
}

The #[HandledBy] attribute takes any invokable class. If you use an aggregate root class, the #[AggregateUuid] property is also required in order to map a command to an aggregate root.

If a command is handled by an aggregate root, you can simply add a method on that aggregate root which takes the command as an argument, and the rest will be handled for you:

class CartAggregateRoot extends AggregateRoot
{
    // …

    public function addItem(
        AddCartItem $addCartItem
    ): self {
        // …
    }
}

Also note that these commands can be mapped to aggregate partials, this is especially useful when you don't want to provide a manual mapping of public methods between the aggregate root and its partials.

class CartItems extends AggregatePartial
{
    // …

    public function addItem(
        AddCartItem $addCartItem
    ): self {
        // …
    }
}

Finally, a command is dispatched on the CommandBus, which is registered in Laravel's container, so you can inject is wherever needed:

class CartController
{
    public function addCartItem(
        Request $request,
        CommandBus $commandBus
    ): void {
        $commandBus->dispatch(new AddCartItem(
            cartUuid: /* … */,
            cartItemUuid: /* … */,
            product: /* … */,
            amount: /* … */,
        ));
    }
}

Want to know more?

Commands can be a very useful tool in complex applications. Our course, Event Sourcing in Laravel covers them in depth:

• 13. The Command Bus
• 14. CQRS