Event Sourcing with Django

The Python package eventsourcing-django provides a Django app that uses the Django ORM to define alternative persistence infrastructure for the Python eventsourcing library. This package is available on PyPI.

This package is designed and tested to work with version 9.1 of the Python eventsourcing library, Django versions 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, and 4.0, and Python versions 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, and 3.10. Please note, all version combinations are tested on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS “Focal Fossa”, except for Django 4.0 with Python 3.7 because Django 4.0 does not support Python 3.7.

The functionality provided by this package was previously included in the Python eventsourcing package, but was moved out to a separate package during development of version 9.

This package is maintained by the Python eventsourcing project. Please raise issues on GitHub and join the community discussion on Slack.

Installation

You can use pip to install the package. It is recommended to install Python packages into a Python virtual environment.

$ pip install eventsourcing-django

Configuration

If you are using Django 3.0 or 3.1, please add 'eventsourcing_django.apps.EventsourcingConfig' to your Django project's INSTALLED_APPS setting.

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'eventsourcing_django.apps.EventsourcingConfig',
]

If you are using Django 3.2 or later, you only need to add 'eventsourcing_django' to your Django project's INSTALLED_APPS setting, although the above will work also.

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'eventsourcing_django',
]

Database migration

To migrate your database, please run Django's manage.py migrate command.

$ python manage.py migrate eventsourcing_django

Event-sourced aggregates and application

You can develop event-sourced aggregates and applications independently of persistence infrastructure. Please refer to the core library docs for more information.

The example below defines an event-sourced aggregate World. It will be created with a history attribute. The command method make_it_so() triggers an event SomethingHappened that appends the command argument what to the history.

from eventsourcing.domain import Aggregate, event


class World(Aggregate):
    def __init__(self):
        self.history = []

    @event("SomethingHappened")
    def make_it_so(self, what):
        self.history.append(what)

The application class Universe has three methods. The method create_world() creates a new World aggregate. The method make_it_so() calls make_it_so() on an existing World aggregate. The method get_world_history() returns the current history value of an existing World aggregate.

from eventsourcing.application import Application

class Universe(Application):
    def create_world(self):
        world = World()
        self.save(world)
        return world.id

    def make_it_so(self, world_id, what):
        world = self.repository.get(world_id)
        world.make_it_so(what)
        self.save(world)

    def get_world_history(self, world_id):
        world = self.repository.get(world_id)
        return world.history

Initialize application object

The application object brings together the domain model and the persistence infrastructure, and provides an interface for views and forms.

To use the Django ORM as the application's persistence infrastructure, you must set the application's environment variable INFRASTRUCTURE_FACTORY to eventsourcing_django.factory:Factory. Environment variables can be set in the environment, or set on the application class, or passed in when constructing the application object as seen below.

# Construct the application.
app = Universe(env={
    "INFRASTRUCTURE_FACTORY": "eventsourcing_django.factory:Factory",
})

You may wish to construct the application object on a signal when the Django project is "ready". You can use the ready() method of the AppConfig class in the apps.py module of a Django app.

Views and forms

After migrating the database and constructing the application object, the application object's methods can be called. The application object's methods may be called from Django views and forms.

# Call application command methods.
world_id = app.create_world()

app.make_it_so(world_id, "dinosaurs")
app.make_it_so(world_id, "trucks")
app.make_it_so(world_id, "internet")
app.make_it_so(world_id, "covid")

# Call application query methods.
history = app.get_world_history(world_id)
assert history == ["dinosaurs", "trucks", "internet", "covid"]

For more information, please refer to the Python eventsourcing library and the Django project.