Road map

Refactor: Architecture clean up

The current on-going work on Beam is a clean up of the internals in the branch refactor. Things that are done on the lists below will be crossed off. Goals of this refactor are primarily:

• Break down monolithic/god classes/methods
• Make it possible for deep components (eg. DeploymentProvider) to be verbose or prompt (? maybe)

Architecture changes

Current state: Everything is centred around the Beam class. This looks like it was modelled after Composer, but has ended up a bit messy. It's currently difficult to add functionality without putting it in the Beam class. The Beam class (875 lines) currently handles:

• Determining context by combining config options with command line options/arguments
• Validating the resulting context
• Managing files (exporting from Git, running local and remote commands)
• Running the deployment (via a bunch of abstracted methods like "isUp", "doDryrun", and "doRun")

Proposed architecture: Based more around components that can be created and controlled by a command. The same components are in use, but the Beam class is removed.

Todo

Monolithic classes/methods to be re-worked

• Beam
• TransferCommand::execute();

Restructuring

• Rename DeploymentProvider to Transport
• Move command running from Beam to Transport
• Change .beamlog file to use JSON; document schema

Functionality additions

Note that some of these things could be added without the a refactor.

• Include git describe output in beam log
• Allow notification of a url on deploy
• Respect or remove no-interaction option (and other Symfony console default options)
• #44 - send .beamlog to server when using path mode
• #30 - command to view the status of a server
• #14 - place source/target info after file list if the list was excessively large
• Allow rolling back to commits on the same branch for locked targets
• Add variable replacements to config processing (eg. %%target_name%% becomes live)
• Allow deploying to multiple servers from the same prepared location (+ simultaneously would be nice)

Other/misc functionality

• Error on use of tag that doesn't match any options
• Autocomplete for path flag
• Interactive init command
• GUI config editor web tool
• deploy-folder config option to allow deploying a sub directory of a project instead of the git root
• Multithreaded FTP