Anclax Development Workflow

Use Anclax generated types as the contract between layers and keep specs/SQL as the source of truth.

Design principles

• Singleton services with dependency injection.
• High cohesion, low coupling.

Core flow

1. Inspect anclax.yaml to learn generation paths and enabled generators.
2. Update sources first:
   • OpenAPI: the matching oapi-codegen entry path (commonly api/openapi, which may be a single file or a directory of merged fragments)
   • Tasks: the matching task-handler entry path (commonly api/tasks/tasks.yaml)
   • DB schema: sql/migrations
   • Queries: sql/queries
3. Run anclax gen after any spec/SQL/Wire changes.
4. If you modify examples/, run make gen to refresh cmd/anclax/initFiles and normalize template-specific go.mod content.
5. Implement code against generated interfaces and types.
6. Add unit tests for service logic with mocks.

Layering rules

• HTTP handler: parse HTTP, call service, map errors to HTTP responses.
• Websocket handler: parse frames, manage session state, call service logic, and write websocket responses.
• Service: implement business logic, topic/subscription policy, and event publication.
• Model: use pkg/zcore/model and sqlc-generated queries.
• Async tasks: define in the task spec configured under task-handler (commonly api/tasks/tasks.yaml), implement taskgen.ExecutorInterface, enqueue via taskgen.TaskRunner.

References and Examples

• Config: How to use anclax.yaml for generator inputs/outputs.
• CRUD operations: End-to-end CRUD flow and mapping examples.
• OpenAPI Spec: Conventions for OpenAPI specs in Anclax.
• Business Logic: Service-layer rules and error handling.
• Authentication: Simple auth config, macaroon tokens, and custom auth API patterns.
• Database: SQL/schema rules and transaction helpers.
• Websocket / Realtime: lib/ws handlers, hubs, session lifecycle, subscriptions, and broadcasts.
• Dependency Injection: Wire DI conventions.
• Async Tasks: Task definitions, execution, retries, and hooks.
• Example template generation: Updating examples/ and regenerating cmd/anclax/initFiles, including go.mod normalization from VERSION.
• Multi-service repos: Organizing multiple apps under app/ with shared or service-specific modules.