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Ecotone is the PHP architecture layer that grows with your system — without rewrites.
From #[CommandHandler] on day one, to event sourcing, sagas, outbox, and distributed messaging at scale — one package, same codebase, no forced migrations between growth stages. Declarative PHP 8 attributes on the classes you already have.
Ecotone for Tempest — CQRS, Event Sourcing, Sagas, Durable Workflows, and Outbox via PHP attributes. Zero-config auto-discovery derives your application namespaces from your composer.json PSR-4 roots. Handlers, aggregates, sagas, and projections are found automatically without any registration boilerplate.
- Zero-config auto-discovery of handlers from your app's PSR-4 namespaces
- CQRS —
CommandBus,QueryBus,EventBusavailable via dependency injection - Database integration via
ecotone/dbalwith Tempest'sDatabaseConfig - Multi-tenant connections with per-tenant database switching
- Async messaging, sagas, outbox, event sourcing (with appropriate modules)
- Console commands:
ecotone:list,ecotone:run,ecotone:cache:clear
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composer require ecotone/tempestEcotone auto-discovery is enabled via Tempest's package discovery system. No service provider registration is needed.
Ecotone derives your application namespaces from the PSR-4 roots declared in your composer.json. Any class with an Ecotone attribute (#[CommandHandler], #[QueryHandler], #[EventHandler], etc.) in those namespaces is discovered automatically.
// src/Order/PlaceOrderHandler.php
namespace App\Order;
use Ecotone\Modelling\Attribute\CommandHandler;
use Ecotone\Modelling\Attribute\QueryHandler;
final class PlaceOrderHandler
{
private array $orders = [];
#[CommandHandler('order.place')]
public function place(string $orderId): void
{
$this->orders[] = $orderId;
}
#[QueryHandler('order.all')]
public function all(): array
{
return $this->orders;
}
}That is all that is needed. No configuration file, no registration — Ecotone discovers it from your namespace.
CommandBus, QueryBus, and EventBus are automatically registered in the Tempest container and can be injected anywhere:
use Ecotone\Modelling\CommandBus;
use Ecotone\Modelling\QueryBus;
final class OrderController
{
public function __construct(
private CommandBus $commandBus,
private QueryBus $queryBus,
) {}
public function place(string $orderId): array
{
$this->commandBus->sendWithRouting('order.place', $orderId);
return $this->queryBus->sendWithRouting('order.all');
}
}Create a class that provides EcotoneConfig to the Tempest container to customise behaviour:
// src/Configuration/EcotoneConfiguration.php
namespace App\Configuration;
use Ecotone\Tempest\EcotoneConfig;
use Tempest\Container\Singleton;
#[Singleton]
final class EcotoneConfiguration
{
public function ecotoneConfig(): EcotoneConfig
{
return new EcotoneConfig(
serviceName: 'my-service',
licenceKey: getenv('ECOTONE_LICENCE_KEY') ?: '',
cacheConfiguration: true,
);
}
}Or simply bind EcotoneConfig in a Tempest config file:
// config/ecotone.php (or any #[ServiceContext] provider)
use Ecotone\Tempest\EcotoneConfig;
return new EcotoneConfig(
serviceName: 'my-service',
licenceKey: getenv('ECOTONE_LICENCE_KEY') ?: '',
);| Property | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
serviceName |
string |
'' (from ECOTONE_SERVICE_NAME env) |
Identifies this service in distributed tracing and logs |
namespaces |
array |
[] |
Explicit namespaces to scan. When empty and loadAppNamespaces is true, derived from composer.json |
loadAppNamespaces |
bool |
true |
Auto-derive scan namespaces from your app's PSR-4 roots |
cacheConfiguration |
bool |
false (from ECOTONE_CACHE_CONFIGURATION env) |
Cache the messaging system definition for production |
defaultSerializationMediaType |
string |
'' |
Override the default message serialization format |
defaultErrorChannel |
string |
'' |
Channel name for unhandled async exceptions |
skippedModulePackageNames |
array |
[] |
Module packages to skip loading (useful for testing) |
licenceKey |
string |
'' |
Enterprise licence key |
Ecotone registers Tempest console commands automatically:
# List all registered consumers and handlers
./tempest ecotone:list
# Run an asynchronous consumer (requires ecotone/dbal or another async transport)
./tempest ecotone:run notifications
# Clear the Ecotone configuration cache
./tempest ecotone:cache:clearThe ecotone:cache:clear command removes the cached messaging system definition from sys_get_temp_dir()/ecotone_tempest/. Use it after deploying changes when cacheConfiguration is enabled.
Install the DBAL module:
composer require ecotone/dbalRegister a TempestConnectionReference via #[ServiceContext] to bridge Tempest's DatabaseConfig to Ecotone's DBAL module:
use Ecotone\Messaging\Attribute\ServiceContext;
use Ecotone\Tempest\Config\TempestConnectionReference;
final class EcotoneConfiguration
{
#[ServiceContext]
public function dbalConnection(): TempestConnectionReference
{
return TempestConnectionReference::defaultConnection();
}
}TempestConnectionReference::defaultConnection() resolves Tempest's default DatabaseConfig from the container at runtime.
To use a specific config:
use Tempest\Database\Config\PostgresConfig;
#[ServiceContext]
public function dbalConnection(): TempestConnectionReference
{
return TempestConnectionReference::create('myConnection', new PostgresConfig(
host: getenv('DB_HOST') ?: 'localhost',
port: getenv('DB_PORT') ?: '5432',
username: getenv('DB_USER') ?: 'app',
password: getenv('DB_PASSWORD') ?: '',
database: getenv('DB_NAME') ?: 'app',
));
}Use MultiTenantConfiguration together with per-tenant TempestConnectionReference instances. A tenant header on each message selects the correct database:
use Ecotone\Dbal\MultiTenant\MultiTenantConfiguration;
use Ecotone\Messaging\Attribute\ServiceContext;
use Ecotone\Tempest\Config\TempestConnectionReference;
use Tempest\Database\Config\MysqlConfig;
use Tempest\Database\Config\PostgresConfig;
final class EcotoneConfiguration
{
#[ServiceContext]
public function multiTenantConfiguration(): MultiTenantConfiguration
{
return MultiTenantConfiguration::create(
tenantHeaderName: 'tenant',
tenantToConnectionMapping: [
'tenant_a' => TempestConnectionReference::create('tenant_a', new PostgresConfig(
host: getenv('TENANT_A_DB_HOST'),
username: getenv('TENANT_A_DB_USER'),
password: getenv('TENANT_A_DB_PASSWORD'),
database: getenv('TENANT_A_DB_NAME'),
)),
'tenant_b' => TempestConnectionReference::create('tenant_b', new MysqlConfig(
host: getenv('TENANT_B_DB_HOST'),
username: getenv('TENANT_B_DB_USER'),
password: getenv('TENANT_B_DB_PASSWORD'),
database: getenv('TENANT_B_DB_NAME'),
)),
],
);
}
}Route commands to the correct tenant by setting the header:
$commandBus->sendWithRouting('order.place', $order, metadata: ['tenant' => 'tenant_a']);Security note: When
cacheConfigurationis enabled, theDatabaseConfigfor eachTempestConnectionReference::create(name, config)call is serialized into the on-disk cache file. This means database credentials (username, password, DSN) are written to disk in base64-encoded serialized form. Keep the cache directory (sys_get_temp_dir()/ecotone_tempest/) non-world-readable and rotate credentials if the cache file is exposed. Use./tempest ecotone:cache:clearafter credential rotation.
Enable the configuration cache for production to avoid re-scanning annotations on every request:
new EcotoneConfig(
cacheConfiguration: true,
);Or set the ECOTONE_CACHE_CONFIGURATION=1 environment variable. The cache is stored in sys_get_temp_dir()/ecotone_tempest/. Clear it after deployment:
./tempest ecotone:cache:clearWhen APP_ENV=prod or APP_ENV=production, the production cache path is used automatically regardless of the cacheConfiguration setting.
Ecotone supports Symfony Expression Language in #[Payload] and #[Header] attributes. The parameter() function reads from environment variables via TempestConfigurationVariableService:
use Ecotone\Messaging\Attribute\Parameter\Payload;
use Ecotone\Modelling\Attribute\CommandHandler;
final class CalculatorHandler
{
#[CommandHandler('calculator.multiply')]
public function multiply(
#[Payload("parameter('APP_MULTIPLIER') * payload['value']")] int $result
): void {
// $result = APP_MULTIPLIER * payload['value']
}
}Requires symfony/expression-language:
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