Change logName before creating

[argo-uka]

Hello,

I take advantage of the LogsActivity trait to automatically log when creating models. But I have different places where I create new Model and I would like to set a different logName depending on that.
Example:

public function fromMethodA () {
    activity("create-from-a");
   MyModel::create(.....);
}

public function fromMethodB () {
    activity("create-from-b");
   MyModel::create(.....);
}

So far I tried to set $activity->log_name with tap, but it doesn't work. Any idea on how to achieve this?

[Gummibeer]

Hey, you could define a tapActivity() method on your model which can change the activity before it's persisted. But you need some fancy way to transfer the calling method to this tap method.
Without any container usage or similar global variable holder you could use debug_backtrace() for example.

Another option would be

$default = config('activitylog.default_log_name');
config('activitylog.default_log_name', 'my_new_log_name');
$model = MyModel::create(...);
config('activitylog.default_log_name', default');

return $model;

You could make this more readable and reusable by adding a macro to the ActivityLogger:

ActivityLogger::macro('withLogName', function(string $logName, Closure $callback) {
    $defaultLogName = config('activitylog.default_log_name');
    config('activitylog.default_log_name', $logName');
    $result = $callback();
    config('activitylog.default_log_name', default');

    return $result;
});

And you could use it like the following:

$model = ActivityLogger::withLogName('my_new_log_name', function() {
    return MyModel::create(...);
});

[argo-uka]

Amazing, thank you for the quick reply. I had to change a little bit.

ActivityLogger::macro('withLogName', function(string $logName, Closure $callback) {
  $defaultLogName = config('activitylog.default_log_name');
  config(['activitylog.default_log_name' => $logName]);
  $result = $callback();
  config(['activitylog.default_log_name' => $defaultLogName]);
  return $result;
 });