CoreShop State Machine
The CoreShop State Machine is a important core feature which allows to determinate complex workflows securely and in a most modern way. Unlike the most eCommerce Frameworks out there, CoreShop does not work with the messy and hard do extend "state/status" concept. Every order-section and of course the order itself provides its own state machine which allows us to build a super strong state workflow.
Places
In State Machine context, the well-known "Status" Property is called "Places". Every Workflow comes with a pre-defined set of Places.
Transition
To change the Place of a workflow we need to apply a transition. If the transition is valid the new place gets stored.
Callbacks
There are several events for each transition which can be also extend by every project.
Example:: If all order payments has been successfully transformed to the completed place,
the coreshop_order_payment workflow will automatically change to paid.
Workflows
There are seven implemented Workflows:
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coreshop_order -
coreshop_order_payment -
coreshop_order_shipment -
coreshop_order_invoice -
coreshop_payment -
coreshop_shipment -
coreshop_invoice
Workflows are connected among themselves so every transition will trigger another Workflow and so on. If a transition has been dispatched, it cannot be transformed back unless it has been defined in the available transitions.
So let's start: