dry-system 0.17

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Booting a Dependency

In some cases a dependency can be huge, so huge it needs to load some additional files (often 3rd party code) and it may rely on custom configuration.

Because of this reason dry-system has the concept of booting a dependency.

The convention is pretty simple. You put files under system/boot directory and use your container to register dependencies with the ability to postpone finalization. This gives us a way to define what's needed but load it and boot it on demand.

Here's a simple example:

# system/boot/persistence.rb

Application.boot(:persistence) do
  init do
    require '3rd_party/db'
  end

  start do
    register(:database, 3rdParty::Db.new)
  end
end

After defining the finalization block our container will not call it until its own finalization. This means we can require file that defines our container and ask it to boot just that one :persistence dependency:

# system/application/container.rb
class Application < Dry::System::Container
  configure do |config|
    config.root = Pathname('/my/app')
  end
end

Application.start(:persistence)

# and now `database` becomes available
Application['database']

Lifecycles

In some cases, a bootable dependency may have multiple stages of initialization, to support it dry-system provides 3 levels of booting:

  • init - basic setup code, here you can require 3rd party code and perform basic configuration
  • start - code that needs to run for a component to be usable at application's runtime
  • stop - code that needs to run to stop a component, ie close a database connection, clear some artifacts etc.

Here's a simple example:

# system/boot/db.rb

Application.boot(:db) do
  init do
    require '3rd_party/db'

    register(:db, 3rdParty::Db.configure(ENV['DB_URL']))
  end

  start do
    db.establish_connection
  end

  stop do
    db.close_connection
  end
end

Using other bootable dependencies

It is often needed to use another dependency when booting a component, you can use a convenient use API for that, it will auto-boot required dependency and make it available in the booting context:

# system/boot/logger.rb
Application.boot(:logger) do
  init do
    require 'logger'
  end

  start do
    register(:logger, Logger.new($stdout))
  end
end

# system/boot/db.rb
Application.boot(:db) do |app|
  start do
    use :logger

    register(DB.new(ENV['DB_URL'], logger: app[:logger]))
  end
end

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