Python task manager from scratch, part 37: Fixing our coordinator

I managed to do some constructive thinking last time, but messed up the implementation of KickoffCoordinator:

  1. The coordinator should only track some subset of tasks; it somehow needs to know which tasks it's coordinating. (Maintaining this over time will not be trivial, but we'll worry about that later.)
  2. Even if they're just in first-draft phase, our domain objects should not be depending on a repository. I passed a TaskRepository to KickoffCoordinator as an initialization parameter, because (I guess) I didn't know how else to actually enact what the coordinator needs to be doing: creating and adding tasks as appropriate.

So, we need to decouple what the coordinator is doing from what is processing the results of what the coordinator is doing. In other words, the coordinator's determining that a certain task needs to be added needs to be separate from the actual addition of the task (in some repository somewhere).

This is a complicated and controversial subject. Happily, first steps are somewhat less controversial and complicated. We'll turn the coordinator's output into a Command object and change KickoffCoordinator.proc_event() to emit those objects instead of directly modifying a repository. (My approach here is indebted to Architecture Patterns with Python, at least insofar as what I do is sensible.)

Soon: a proper message-processing system! So much writing about software either (i) does not involve a properly separated message-passing system or (ii) is concerned with operating such a system at large scale. It will be pleasant to construct a well-functioning system without worrying about Big Tech-level scale.

Here's the current commit in the veery/ repository.


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