E-Commerce Order Pipeline
Full order management: create, add items, process through stages.
Example 065 of the basic Soma programs: a small, commented program that teaches one thing. Every output below was printed by soma 3.2.4 when this page was built.
How it is built
The cell OrderPipeline keeps 3 memory slots: orders (Map<String, String>, persistent and consistent), items (Map<String, String>, persistent and consistent) and status (Map<String, String>, persistent and consistent). Its state machine order_flow starts in draft and allows 5 transitions: draft -> submitted, submitted -> approved, approved -> shipped, shipped -> delivered and * -> cancelled. cancelled and delivered are terminal. Handlers: create_order (line 34), add_item (line 41) and demo (line 53).
The source
065_order_pipeline.cell
// ============================================================================
// 065 — E-Commerce Order Pipeline
// ============================================================================
// Full order management: create, add items, process through stages.
//
// Run: soma run 065_order_pipeline.cell demo
// Expect:
// Order created for Alice
// Added: Widget (x2)
// Added: Gadget (x1)
// Order submitted
// Order approved
// Order shipped
// Final: delivered
cell OrderPipeline {
memory {
orders: Map<String, String> [persistent, consistent]
items: Map<String, String> [persistent, consistent]
status: Map<String, String> [persistent, consistent]
}
state order_flow {
initial: draft
draft -> submitted
submitted -> approved
approved -> shipped
shipped -> delivered
* -> cancelled
}
on create_order(customer: String) {
let id = to_string(next_id())
orders.set(id, customer)
status.set(id, "draft")
return id
}
on add_item(order_id: String, item: String, qty: Int) {
let existing = items.get(order_id) ?? ""
let qty_str = to_string(qty)
let entry = concat(item, concat(" (x", concat(qty_str, ")")))
if existing == "" {
items.set(order_id, entry)
} else {
items.set(order_id, concat(existing, concat(", ", entry)))
}
return entry
}
on demo() {
let id = create_order("Alice")
print("Order created for Alice")
let i1 = add_item(id, "Widget", 2)
print("Added: {i1}")
let i2 = add_item(id, "Gadget", 1)
print("Added: {i2}")
transition(id, "submitted")
print("Order submitted")
transition(id, "approved")
print("Order approved")
transition(id, "shipped")
print("Order shipped")
transition(id, "delivered")
print("Final: delivered")
return "done"
}
}What the toolchain says
$ soma check 065_order_pipeline.cell
✓ All checks passed.$ soma run 065_order_pipeline.cell demo
Order created for Alice
Added: Widget (x2)
Added: Gadget (x1)
Order submitted
Order approved
Order shipped
Final: delivered
done