Best practices for dynamic workflows

[Alberto Mijares]

Dear mojo devs,

I want to design and develop a generic framework for documents
processing. Basically, a data input, validations, business rules,
optional rendering and delivery. So, the data input module might be
static but all the other modules would be custom according to the
needs. For example, one might want to deliver to a S3 bucket while
others might want to deliver via email or SMS.

Now the question is: what's the best approach for easily installing
and configuring such modules in the framework? The link between
modules would be a queue, not sure about the backend for those queues
yet, though, perhaps Pg or Celery. Ideally, when you install the
framework it comes with default "dummy" modules with some very basic
functionality that also serves as template for developing custom
modules.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.


Alberto Mijares

[Dan Book]

For distribution outside of CPAN, a cpanfile can specify "features" that can be requested when installing dependencies like: cpanm --installdeps --with-feature=foo .

https://metacpan.org/pod/cpanfile#feature 

For CPAN distributions, you can use optional features as well, but most people will ignore it because cpanm defaults to non-interactive. I would recommend providing additional distributions as plugins which provide the dependencies needed for their task.

-Dan

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[Sebastian Riedel]

The link between
modules would be a queue, not sure about the backend for those queues
yet, though, perhaps Pg or Celery.

Fyi. Mojolicious has a job queue too.

    https://github.com/mojolicious/minion

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sebastian 

[Alberto Mijares]

> Fyi. Mojolicious has a job queue too.
>
> https://github.com/mojolicious/minion
>
> --
> sebastian

This is what I had in mind when wrote "Pg".

Thanks ;-)

[Alberto Mijares]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 11:03 AM Dan Book <gri...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> For distribution outside of CPAN, a cpanfile can specify "features" that can be requested when installing dependencies like: cpanm --installdeps --with-feature=foo .
>
> https://metacpan.org/pod/cpanfile#feature
>
> For CPAN distributions, you can use optional features as well, but most people will ignore it because cpanm defaults to non-interactive. I would recommend providing additional distributions as plugins which provide the dependencies needed for their task.
>
> -Dan

Thank you, Dan. Your suggestions made me see another approach for the design.

Regards,


Alberto Mijares