defmodule Knigge do @moduledoc """ An opinionated way of dealing with behaviours. Opinionated means that it offers an easy way of defining a "facade" for a behaviour. This facade then delegates calls to the real implementation, which is either given directly to `Knigge` or fetched from the configuration. `Knigge` can be `use`d directly in a behaviour, or in a separate module by passing the behaviour which should be "facaded" as an option. ## Overview - [Motivation](#module-motivation) - [Examples](#module-examples) - [Options](#module-options) - [Knigge and Compiler Warnings](#module-knigge-and-compiler-warnings) ## Motivation `Knigge` was born out of a desire to standardize dealing with behaviours and their implementations. As great fans of [`mox`](https://github.com/plataformatec/mox) we longed for an easy way to swap out implementations from the configuration which lead us to introduce a facade pattern, where a module's sole responsibility was loading the correct implementation and delegating calls. This pattern turned out to be very flexible and useful but required a fair bit of boilerplate code. `Knigge` was born out of an attempt to reduce this boilerplate to the absolute minimum. You can read about our motivation in depth [in our devblog](https://dev.betterdoc.org/elixir/friday_project/behaviour/2019/07/30/how-we-deal-with-behaviours-and-boilerplate.html). ## Examples Imagine a behaviour looking like this: defmodule MyGreatBehaviour do @callback my_great_callback(my_argument :: any()) :: any() end Now imagine you want to delegate calls to this behaviour like this: defmodule MyGreatBehaviourFacade do @behaviour MyGreatBehaviour @implementation Application.fetch_env!(:my_application, __MODULE__) defdelegate my_great_callback, to: @implementation end With this in place you can simply reference the "real implementation" by calling functions on your facade: MyGreatBehaviourFacade.my_great_callback(:with_some_argument) `Knigge` allows you to reduce this boilerplate to the absolute minimum: defmodule MyGreatBehaviourFacade do use Knigge, behaviour: MyGreatBehaviour, otp_app: :my_application end Under the hood this compiles down to the explicit delegation visible on the top. In case you don't want to fetch your implementation from the configuration, `Knigge` also allows you to explicitely pass the implementation of the behaviour with the aptly named key `implementation`: defmodule MyGreatBehaviourFacade do use Knigge, behaviour: MyGreatBehaviour, implementation: MyGreatImplementation end ### `defdefault` - Fallback implementations for optional callbacks Now imagine you have a more sophisticated behaviour with some optional callbacks: defmodule MySophisticatedBehaviour do @callback an_optional_callback() :: any() @callback a_required_callback() :: any() @optional_callbacks an_optional_callback: 0 end As you would expect `Knigge` delegates calls to this callback as usual. But since it's optional this delegation might fail. A common pattern is to check if the implementation exports the function in question: if function_exported?(MyImplementation, :an_optional_callback, 0) do MyImplementation.an_optional_callback() else :my_fallback_implementation end `Knigge` offers an easy way to specify these fallback implementations with `defdefault`: defmodule MySophisticatedFacade do use Knigge, behaviour: MySophisticatedBehaviour, otp_app: :my_application defdefault an_optional_callback do :my_fallback_implementation end end `Knigge` tries to determine at compile-time if the implementation exports the function in question and only uses the default if this is not the case. As such `defdefault` incurs no runtime overhead and compiles to a simple `def`. Of course `defdefault`s can accept arguments as any usual function: defdefault my_optional_callback_with_arguments(first_argument, another_argument) do case first_argument do # ... end end ## Options `Knigge` expects either the `otp_app` key or the `implementation` key. If neither is provided an error will be raised at compile time. When using the `otp_app` configuration you can also pass `config_key`, which results in a call looking like this: `Application.fetch_env!(otp_app, config_key)`. `config_key` defaults to `__MODULE__`. By default `Knigge` does as much work as possible at compile time. This will be fine most of the time. In case you want to swap out the implementation at runtime - by calling `Application.put_env/2` - you can force `Knigge` to do all delegation at runtime. As you might expect this incurs runtime overhead, since the implementing module will have to be loaded for each call. If you want to do delegation at runtime simply pass `delegate_at_runtime?: true` as option - by default `Knigge` delegates at runtime in your `:test`s. For further information about options check the `Knigge.Options` module. ## Verifying your Implementations - `mix knigge.verify` Before version 1.2.0 `Knigge` tried to check at compile time if the implementation of your facade existed. Due to the way the Elixir compiler goes about compiling your modules this didn't work as expected - [checkout this page if you're interested in the details](https://hexdocs.pm/knigge/the-existence-check.html). As an alternative `Knigge` now offers the `mix knigge.verify` task which verifies that the implementation modules of your facades actually exist. The task returns with an error code when an implementation is missing, which allows you to plug it into your CI pipeline - for example as `MIX_ENV=prod mix knigge.verify`. For details check the documentation of `mix knigge.verify` by running `mix help knigge.verify`. ## Knigge and the `:test` environment To give the maximum amount of flexibility `Knigge` delegates at runtime in your `:test` environment and at compile time everywhere else. This allows you to easily swap out your behaviour implementation - for example by calling `Application.put_env/3` - and it also avoids a bunch of compiler warnings. ### Compiler Warnings With the default configuration `Knigge` does not generate any compiler warnings. In case you change the `delegate_at_runtime?` configuration to anything which excludes the `:test` environment you will - most likely - encounter compiler warnings like this: warning: function MyMock.my_great_callback/1 is undefined (module MyMock is not available) lib/my_facade.ex:1 warning: function MyMock.another_callback/0 is undefined (module MyMock is not available) lib/my_facade.ex:1 This can quickly become quite unnerving. Luckily you can explicitly tell the compiler to ignore this module in your `mix.exs` file. To disable the check simply add a single line to your `mix.exs`' `project/0` function: def project do [ # ... xref: [exclude: [MyMock]] ] end Where `MyMock` is the name of your configured module in question. """ @type key :: :behaviour | :implementation | :options @spec __using__(Knigge.Options.raw()) :: no_return defmacro __using__(options) do quote bind_quoted: [options: options] do import Knigge.Code, only: [defdefault: 2] @before_compile Knigge.Code Module.register_attribute(__MODULE__, :__knigge__, accumulate: true) options = options |> Keyword.put_new(:behaviour, __MODULE__) |> Keyword.put_new(:config_key, __MODULE__) |> Knigge.Options.new() behaviour = options |> Knigge.Behaviour.fetch!() |> Knigge.Module.ensure_exists!(__ENV__) @__knigge__ {:options, options} @doc "Acts as a \"flag\" to mark this module as a Knigge module." @spec __knigge__() :: :ok def __knigge__, do: :ok @doc "Access Knigge internal values, such as the implementation being delegated to etc." @spec __knigge__(:behaviour) :: module() @spec __knigge__(:implementation) :: module() @spec __knigge__(:options) :: Knigge.Options.t() def __knigge__(:behaviour), do: unquote(behaviour) def __knigge__(:options), do: @__knigge__[:options] if options.delegate_at_runtime? do def __knigge__(:implementation) do Knigge.Implementation.fetch!(__knigge__(:options)) end else implementation = Knigge.Implementation.fetch!(options) def __knigge__(:implementation) do unquote(implementation) end end end end @doc "Access the options passed to Knigge for a module" @spec options!(module()) :: Knigge.Options.t() def options!(module) do cond do Module.open?(module) -> Module.get_attribute(module, :__knigge__)[:options] function_exported?(module, :__knigge__, 1) -> module.__knigge__(:options) true -> raise ArgumentError, "expected a module using Knigge but #{inspect(module)} does not." end end end