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+ What is apollo?
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+ ===============
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+
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+ > In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo (in Greek, Ἀπόλλων—Apóllōn or Ἀπέλλων—Apellōn),
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+ > is one of the most important and diverse of the Olympian deities. The ideal of the
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+ > kouros (a beardless youth), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light
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+ > and the sun; truth and prophecy; archery; medicine, healing and plague; music,
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+ > poetry, and the arts; and more. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin
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+ > sister, the chaste huntress Artemis. [Wikipedia: Dionysus (2010/04/23)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo)
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+
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+ Apollo is an fork of workflow.
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+
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+ What is workflow?
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+ -----------------
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+
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+ Workflow is a finite-state-machine-inspired API for modeling and
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+ interacting with what we tend to refer to as 'apollo'.
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+
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+ A lot of business modeling tends to involve apollo-like concepts, and
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+ the aim of this library is to make the expression of these concepts as
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+ clear as possible, using similar terminology as found in state machine
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+ theory.
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+
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+ So, a workflow has a state. It can only be in one state at a time. When
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+ a workflow changes state, we call that a transition. Transitions occur
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+ on an event, so events cause transitions to occur. Additionally, when an
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+ event fires, other arbitrary code can be executed, we call those actions.
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+ So any given state has a bunch of events, any event in a state causes a
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+ transition to another state and potentially causes code to be executed
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+ (an action). We can hook into states when they are entered, and exited
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+ from, and we can cause transitions to fail (guards), and we can hook in
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+ to every transition that occurs ever for whatever reason we can come up
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+ with.
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+
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+ Now, all that's a mouthful, but we'll demonstrate the API bit by bit
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+ with a real-ish world example.
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+
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+ Let's say we're modeling article submission from journalists. An article
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+ is written, then submitted. When it's submitted, it's awaiting review.
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+ Someone reviews the article, and then either accepts or rejects it.
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+ Here is the expression of this apollo using the API:
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+
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+ class Article
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+ include Apollo
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+ apollo do
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+ state :new do
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+ event :submit, :to => :awaiting_review
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+ end
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+ state :awaiting_review do
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+ event :review, :to => :being_reviewed
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+ end
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+ state :being_reviewed do
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+ event :accept, :to => :accepted
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+ event :reject, :to => :rejected
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+ end
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+ state :accepted
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+ state :rejected
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+ end
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+ end
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+
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+ Nice, isn't it!
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+
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+ Let's create an article instance and check in which state it is:
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+ article = Article.new
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+ article.accepted? # => false
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+ article.new? # => true
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+
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+ You can also access the whole `current_state` object including the list
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+ of possible events and other meta information:
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+
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+ article.current_state
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+ => #<Apollo::State:0x7f1e3d6731f0 @events={
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+ :submit=>#<Apollo::Event:0x7f1e3d6730d8 @action=nil,
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+ @to=:awaiting_review, @name=:submit, @meta={}>},
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+ name:new, meta{}
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+
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+ Now we can call the submit event, which transitions to the
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+ <tt>:awaiting_review</tt> state:
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+
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+ article.submit!
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+ article.awaiting_review? # => true
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+
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+ Events are actually instance methods on a apollo, and depending on the
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+ state you're in, you'll have a different set of events used to
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+ transition to other states.
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+
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+
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+ Installation
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+ ------------
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+
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+ gem install apollo
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+
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+ Alternatively you can just download the lib/apollo.rb and put it in
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+ the lib folder of your Rails or Ruby application.
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+
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+
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+ Examples
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+ --------
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+
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+ After installation or downloading of the library you can easily try out
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+ all the example code from this README in irb.
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+
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+ $ irb
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+ require 'rubygems'
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+ require 'apollo'
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+
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+ Now just copy and paste the source code from the beginning of this README
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+ file snippet by snippet and observe the output.
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+
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+
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+ Transition event handler
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+ ------------------------
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+
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+ The best way is to use convention over configuration and to define a
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+ method with the same name as the event. Then it is automatically invoked
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+ when event is raised. For the Article apollo defined earlier it would
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+ be:
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+
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+ class Article
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+ def reject
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+ puts 'sending email to the author explaining the reason...'
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+ end
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+ end
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+
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+ `article.review!; article.reject!` will cause a state transition, persist the new state
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+ (if integrated with ActiveRecord) and invoke this user defined reject
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+ method.
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+
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+ You can also define event handler accepting/requiring additional
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+ arguments:
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+
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+ class Article
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+ def review(reviewer = '')
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+ puts "[#{reviewer}] is now reviewing the article"
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+ end
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+ end
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+
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+ article2 = Article.new
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+ article2.submit!
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+ article2.review!('Homer Simpson') # => [Homer Simpson] is now reviewing the article
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+
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+
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+ ### The old, deprecated way
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+
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+ The old way, using a block is still supported but deprecated:
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+
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+ event :review, :to => :being_reviewed do |reviewer|
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+ # store the reviewer
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+ end
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+
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+ We've noticed, that mixing the list of events and states with the blocks
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+ invoked for particular transitions leads to a bumpy and poorly readable code
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+ due to a deep nesting. We tried (and dismissed) lambdas for this. Eventually
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+ we decided to invoke an optional user defined callback method with the same
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+ name as the event (convention over configuration) as explained before.
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+
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+
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+ Integration with ActiveRecord
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+ -----------------------------
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+
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+ Apollo library can handle the state persistence fully automatically. You
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+ only need to define a string field on the table called `apollo_state`
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+ and include the apollo mixin in your model class as usual:
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+
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+ class Order < ActiveRecord::Base
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+ include Apollo
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+ apollo do
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+ # list states and transitions here
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+ end
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+ end
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+
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+ On a database record loading all the state check methods e.g.
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+ `article.state`, `article.awaiting_review?` are immediately available.
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+ For new records or if the apollo_state field is not set the state
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+ defaults to the first state declared in the apollo specification. In
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+ our example it is `:new`, so `Article.new.new?` returns true and
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+ `Article.new.approved?` returns false.
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+
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+ At the end of a successful state transition like `article.approve!` the
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+ new state is immediately saved in the database.
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+
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+ You can change this behaviour by overriding `persist_apollo_state`
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+ method.
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+
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+
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+ ### Custom apollo database column
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+
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+ [meuble](http://imeuble.info/) contributed a solution for using
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+ custom persistence column easily, e.g. for a legacy database schema:
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+
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+ class LegacyOrder < ActiveRecord::Base
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+ include Apollo
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+
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+ apollo_column :foo_bar # use this legacy database column for
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+ # persistence
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+ end
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+
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+
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+
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+ ### Single table inheritance
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+
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+ Single table inheritance is also supported. Descendant classes can either
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+ inherit the apollo definition from the parent or override with its own
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+ definition.
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+
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+ Custom apollo state persistence
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+ ---------------------------------
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+
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+ If you do not use a relational database and ActiveRecord, you can still
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+ integrate the apollo very easily. To implement persistence you just
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+ need to override `load_apollo_state` and
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+ `persist_apollo_state(new_value)` methods. Lets see an example for
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+ using CouchDB, a document oriented database.
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+
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+ Integration with CouchDB
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+ ------------------------
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+
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+ We are using the compact [couchtiny library](http://github.com/geekq/couchtiny)
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+ here. But the implementation would look similar for the popular
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+ couchrest library.
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+
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+ require 'couchtiny'
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+ require 'couchtiny/document'
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+ require 'apollo'
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+
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+ class User < CouchTiny::Document
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+ include Apollo
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+ apollo do
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+ state :submitted do
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+ event :activate_via_link, :to => :proved_email
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+ end
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+ state :proved_email
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+ end
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+
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+ def load_apollo_state
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+ self[:apollo_state]
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+ end
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+
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+ def persist_apollo_state(new_value)
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+ self[:apollo_state] = new_value
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+ save!
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+ end
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+ end
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+
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+ Please also have a look at
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+ [the full source code](http://github.com/geekq/apollo/blob/master/test/couchtiny_example.rb).
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+
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+ Accessing your apollo specification
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+ -------------------------------------
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+
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+ You can easily reflect on apollo specification programmatically - for
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+ the whole class or for the current object. Examples:
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+
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+ article2.current_state.events # lists possible events from here
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+ article2.current_state.events[:reject].to # => :rejected
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+
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+ Article.apollo_spec.states.keys
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+ #=> [:rejected, :awaiting_review, :being_reviewed, :accepted, :new]
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+
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+ # list all events for all states
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+ Article.apollo_spec.states.values.collect &:events
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+
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+
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+ You can also store and later retrieve additional meta data for every
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+ state and every event:
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+
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+ class MyProcess
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+ include Apollo
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+ apollo do
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+ state :main, :meta => {:importance => 8}
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+ state :supplemental, :meta => {:importance => 1}
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+ end
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+ end
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+ puts MyProcess.apollo_spec.states[:supplemental].meta[:importance] # => 1
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+
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+ The apollo library itself uses this feature to tweak the graphical
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+ representation of the apollo. See below.
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+
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+
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+ Advanced transition hooks
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+ -------------------------
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+
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+ ### on_entry/on_exit
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+
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+ We already had a look at the declaring callbacks for particular apollo
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+ events. If you would like to react to all transitions to/from the same state
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+ in the same way you can use the on_entry/on_exit hooks. You can either define it
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+ with a block inside the apollo definition or through naming
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+ convention, e.g. for the state :pending just define the method
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+ `on_pending_exit(new_state, event, *args)` somewhere in your class.
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+
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+ ### on_transition
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+
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+ If you want to be informed about everything happening everywhere, e.g. for
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+ logging then you can use the universal `on_transition` hook:
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+
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+ apollo do
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+ state :one do
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+ event :increment, :to => :two
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+ end
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+ state :two
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+ on_transition do |from, to, triggering_event, *event_args|
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+ Log.info "#{from} -> #{to}"
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+ end
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+ end
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+
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+
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+ ### Guards
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+
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+ If you want to halt the transition conditionally, you can just raise an
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+ exception. There is a helper called `halt!`, which raises the
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+ Apollo::TransitionHalted exception. You can provide an additional
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+ `halted_because` parameter.
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+
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+ def reject(reason)
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+ halt! 'We do not reject articles unless the reason is important' \
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+ unless reason =~ /important/i
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+ end
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+
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+ The traditional `halt` (without the exclamation mark) is still supported
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+ too. This just prevents the state change without raising an
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+ exception.
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+
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+ ### Hook order
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+
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+ The whole event sequence is as follows:
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+
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+ * event specific action
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+ * on_transition (if action did not halt)
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+ * on_exit
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+ * PERSIST WORKFLOW STATE, i.e. transition
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+ * on_entry
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+
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+
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+ Documenting with diagrams
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+ You can generate a graphical representation of your apollo for
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+ documentation purposes. S. Apollo::create_apollo_diagram.
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+ Earlier versions
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+ ----------------
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+ The `apollo` library was originally written by Ryan Allen.
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+ The version 0.3 was almost completely (including ActiveRecord
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+ integration, API for accessing apollo specification,
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+ method_missing free implementation) rewritten by Vladimir Dobriakov
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+ keeping the original apollo DSL spirit.
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+ Migration from the original Ryan's library
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+ Credit: Michael (rockrep)
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+ Accessing apollo specification
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+ Changelog
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+ ### New in the version 0.4.0
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+ * completely rewritten the documentation to match my branch. Every
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+ described feature is backed up by an automated test.
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+ ### New in the version 0.3.0
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+ Intermixing of transition graph definition (states, transitions)
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+ on the one side and implementation of the actions on the other side
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+ for a bigger state machine can introduce clutter.
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+ To reduce this clutter it is now possible to use state entry- and
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+ anywhere in your class. You can also use a simpler function signature
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+ If both a function with a name according to naming convention and the
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+ Support
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+ ### Reporting bugs
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+ About
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+ -----
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+ Author: Vladimir Dobriakov, http://www.innoq.com/blog/vd, http://blog.geekq.net/
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+ Copyright (c) 2008-2009 Vodafone
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+ Copyright (c) 2007-2008 Ryan Allen, FlashDen Pty Ltd
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+ Based on the work of Ryan Allen and Scott Barron
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+ Licensed under MIT license, see the MIT-LICENSE file.
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