Conditional Actions

This package allows configuring business logic by API without changing your code. This is helpful when you don`t know specific conditions because they defined dynamically by your managers/users/etc.

How it works

Codebase provides predefined conditions, actions, targets and API for mix them into business logic to end users. Objects:

• Target - provides all necessary data for conditions and actions;
• State - key-value pairs. Actions should update state when applying;
• Condition - condition has method check, it returns succeed it or not (bool);
• Action - action has method apply, it change State or make any other actions and returns changed State;

Lifecycle:

• Target creates a State object;
• Target gets all related active Condition sorted by priority and run the check on each condition;
• For succeeded Condition, Condition gets all related actions and apply them to the State;
• Action returns changed State which used in next conditions or actions;
• After checking all Condition, Target gets new State to applyState method. You can use its state as you needed.

Get started

For example, you have a shop that sells toys. Your marketing runs some promotions for specific toys. If a user buys chests in the past or today is his birthday, "Barbie doll" should have a 10% discount. Promotion starts at 2019/05/01 at 00:00 and finishes at 2019/05/01 at 23:59.

You should create:

Conditions:

• User bought toys in the past (HasPaidToysCondition)
• Today is his birthday (TodayIsBirthdayCondition)

Action:

• "Barbie doll" should have a 10% discount (DiscountAction)

For time restrictions (Promotion starts at 2019/05/01 00:00 and finishes at 2019/05/01 23:59) you can use fields starts_at and ends_at.

Both conditions should be succeeded. You can use AllOfCondition condition from the package.

Marketing can use it for promotions without changing your code.

The final scheme for promotion:

■ AllOfCondition (condition)
│ # fields: ['id' => 1, 'starts_at' => '2019-05-01 00:00:00', 'ends_at' => '2019-05-01 23:59:59']
│    ║
│    ╚═» ░ DiscountAction (action)
│          # fields: ['parameters' => ['discount' => 10]]
│
├─── ■ TodayIsBirthdayCondition (condition)
│      # fields: ['parent_id' => 1]
│
└─── ■ HasPaidToysCondition (condition)
       # fields: ['parent_id' => 1, 'parameters' => ['toy_id' => 5]]

Let`s go to implementation!

Install package

composer require my-com/laravel-conditional-actions

Laravel

For versions < 5.5:

Add package service provider to config/app.php:

return [
    // ...
    'providers' => [
        // ...
        ConditionalActions\ConditionalActionsServiceProvider::class,
    ],
    // ...

For laravel >= 5.5

Laravel 5.5 uses Package Auto-Discovery, so doesn't require you to manually add the ServiceProvider

Lumen

Register service provider and config in app.php:

$app->configure('conditional-actions');
$app->register(ConditionalActions\ConditionalActionsServiceProvider::class);

Add migrations

php artisan ca:tables
php artisan migrate
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="ConditionalActions\ConditionalActionsServiceProvider"

Command options:

Description:
  Create a migration for the conditional actions database tables

Usage:
  ca:tables [options]

Options:
      --migrations-path[=MIGRATIONS-PATH]  Path to migrations directory (relative to framework base path) [default: "database/migrations"]

Implement Target

Target is an object that provides all necessary data for conditions and actions. It can be also an eloquent model.

Since Toy - object for conditional actions, it should use EloquentTarget trait (trait has relationships and some method to get conditions for model)

class ToysPriceTarget implements TargetContract
{
    use RunsConditionalActions;

    /** @var Toy */
    public $toy;

    /** @var User */
    public $user;

    public $finalPrice;

    public function __construct(Toy $toy, User $user)
    {
        $this->toy = $toy;
        $this->user = $user;
    }

    /**
     * Gets state from target.
     *
     * @return StateContract
     */
    public function getInitialState(): StateContract
    {
        return $this->newState([
            'price' => $this->toy->price,
        ]);
    }

    /**
     * Sets the state to the target.
     *
     * @param StateContract $state
     */
    public function applyState(StateContract $state): void
    {
        $this->finalPrice = $state->getAttribute('price');
    }

    /**
     * Gets root target conditions.
     *
     * @return iterable|ConditionContract[]
     */
    public function getRootConditions(): iterable
    {
        return $this->toy->getRootConditions();
    }

    /**
     * Gets children target conditions.
     *
     * @param int $parentId
     *
     * @return iterable|ConditionContract[]
     */
    public function getChildrenConditions(int $parentId): iterable
    {
        return $this->toy->getChildrenConditions($parentId);
    }
}

Implement conditions

Each condition should implement ConditionalActions\Contracts\ConditionContract contract. The package has a base abstract class ConditionalActions\Entities\Conditions\BaseCondition with all contract methods except the check method.

class HasPaidToysCondition extends BaseCondition
{
    /** @var ToysService */
    private $toysService;

    // You can use dependency injection in constructor
    public function __construct(ToysService $toysService)
    {
        $this->toysService = $toysService;
    }

    /**
     * Runs condition check.
     *
     * @param TargetContract $target
     * @param StateContract $state
     *
     * @return bool
     */
    public function check(TargetContract $target, StateContract $state): bool
    {
        $toyId = $this->parameters['toy_id'] ?? null;

        if (!($target instanceof ToysPriceTarget) || is_null($toyId)) {
            return false;
        }

        return $this->toysService->hasPaidToy($target->user, $toyId);
    }
}

class TodayIsBirthdayCondition extends BaseCondition
{
    /** @var ToysService */
    private $toysService;

    // You can use dependency injection in constructor
    public function __construct(ToysService $toysService)
    {
        $this->toysService = $toysService;
    }

    /**
     * Runs condition check.
     *
     * @param TargetContract $target
     * @param StateContract $state
     *
     * @return bool
     */
    public function check(TargetContract $target, StateContract $state): bool
    {
        if (!($target instanceof ToysPriceTarget)) {
            return false;
        }

        return Carbon::now()->isSameDay($target->user->birthday);
    }
}

Implement action

Each condition should implement ConditionalActions\Contracts\ActionContract contract. The package has a base abstract class ConditionalActions\Entities\Actions\BaseAction with all contract methods except the apply method.

class DiscountAction extends BaseAction
{
    /**
     * Applies action to the state and returns a new state.
     *
     * @param StateContract $state
     *
     * @return StateContract
     */
    public function apply(StateContract $state): StateContract
    {
        $discount = $this->parameters['discount'] ?? 0;
        $currentPrice = $state->getAttribute('price');
        $state->setAttribute('price', $currentPrice - $currentPrice / 100 * $discount);

        return $state;
    }
}

Add conditions to config config/conditional-actions.php

return [
    'conditions' => [
        'AllOfCondition' => ConditionalActions\Entities\Conditions\AllOfCondition::class,
        'OneOfCondition' => ConditionalActions\Entities\Conditions\OneOfCondition::class,
        'TrueCondition' => ConditionalActions\Entities\Conditions\TrueCondition::class,

        'CurrentTimeCondition' => App\ConditionalActions\Conditions\CurrentTimeCondition::class,
        'HasPaidToysCondition' => App\ConditionalActions\Conditions\HasPaidToysCondition::class,
        'TodayIsBirthdayCondition' => App\ConditionalActions\Conditions\TodayIsBirthdayCondition::class,
    ],
    'actions' => [
        'UpdateStateAttributeAction' => ConditionalActions\Entities\Actions\UpdateStateAttributeAction::class,

        'DiscountAction' => App\ConditionalActions\Actions\DiscountAction::class,
    ],
    'use_logger' => env('APP_DEBUG', false),
];

Implement API for adds conditions and actions for Toy model

You can use eloquent models or any other objects to put business logic into external storage.

The package has basic CRUD for conditions and actions. You can enable it:

use ConditionalActions\ConditionalActions;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

class RouteServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    // ...
    public function register()
    {
        ConditionalActions::routes();
    }
}

Or you can implement your own API. Sample example:

# This example is not an API. You can create API as you needed.

/** @var Toy $toy */
$toy = Toy::find(10);

/** @var Condition $allOf */
$allOf = $toy->conditions()->create([
    'name' => 'AllOfCondition',
    'starts_at' => '2019-05-01 00:00:00',
    'ends_at' => '2019-05-01 23:59:59',
]);

$allOf->actions()->create([
    'name' => 'DiscountAction',
    'parameters' => ['discount' => 10],
]);

$todayIsBirthday = $allOf->childrenConditions()->make([
    'name' => 'TodayIsBirthdayCondition',
]);

$hasPaidToy = $allOf->childrenConditions()->make([
    'name' => 'HasPaidToysCondition',
    'parameters' => ['toy_id' => 5],
]);

$toy->conditions()->saveMany([$allOf, $hasPaidToy, $todayIsBirthday]);

Run conditional actions

$toy = Toy::find(10);

// Create a target instance
$target = new ToysPriceTarget(Auth::user(), $toy);
/*
 * Run conditional actions.
 * This method will iterate over all its conditions stored in database and apply actions related to succeed conditions
 */
$newState = $target->runConditionalActions();
dump($newState->getAttribute('price'));

P.S.

The package includes conditions and actions:

• Condition AllOfCondition - succeeded when all children conditions are succeeded. All children actions will be included to parent AllOfCondition condition;
• Condition OneOfCondition - succeeded when any of children conditions are succeeded. All children actions for first succeeded condition will be included to parent OneOfCondition condition;
• Condition TrueCondition - always succeeded;
• Action UpdateStateAttributeAction - Updates an attribute value in the state.

Both conditions and actions have fields:

• priority - execution priority;
• nullable starts_at and ends_at - enables condition or action at specific time period;
• parameters - parameters of conditions or actions;
• is_inverted - determines whether the condition result should be inverted.