add actions

Changes

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# Revision history for Updux
+
+0.0.2 2019-10-22
+    - Add 'actions' in the config.
+
+0.0.1 2019-10-22
+    - Initial release.

README.md

@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ const {
             next(action);
         };
     },
+    actions: {
+        customAction: ( someArg ) => ({ someProp: someArg }),
+    },
 
 });
 
@@ -104,7 +107,6 @@ const rootUpdux = updux({
         todos, statistics
     }
 });
-```
 
 #### mutations
 
@@ -187,7 +189,25 @@ updux({
         }
     }
 });
+
+### actions
+
+Generic action creations are automatically created from the mutations and effects, but you can 
+also define custom action creator here. The object's values are function that
+transform the arguments of the creator to the action's payload.
+
 ```
+const { actions } = updox({
+    mutations: {
+        foo: () => state => state,
+    }
+    actions: {
+        bar: (x,y) => ({x,y})
+    }
+});
+
+actions.foo({ x: 1, y: 2 }); // => { type: foo, payload: { x:1, y:2  } }
+actions.bar(1,2);            // => { type: bar, payload: { x:1, y:2  } }
 
 
 ## return value
@@ -215,13 +235,19 @@ mutations will be performed first.
 
 ### actions
 
-Action creators for all actions used in the mutations, effects and subdox
+Action creators for all actions defined or used in the actions, mutations, effects and subduxes
 of the updox config. 
 
-The action creators have the signature `(payload={},meta={}) => ({type,
+Non-custom action creators defined in `actions` have the signature `(payload={},meta={}) => ({type,
 payload,meta})` (with the extra sugar that if `meta` or `payload` are not
 specified, the key is not present in the produced action).
 
+If the same action appears in multiple locations, the precedence order
+determining which one will prevail is
+
+    actions generated from mutations/effects < non-custom subduxes actions <
+    custom subduxes actions < custom actions
+
 ### middleware
 
 A middleware aggregating all the effects defined in the 

package.json

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
       "build": "babel src --out-dir dist",
       "test": "jest"
    },
-   "version": "0.0.1",
+   "version": "0.1.0",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
     "url": "git+https://github.com/yanick/updux.git"

src/actions.test.js

@@ -9,10 +9,18 @@ test( 'actions defined in effects and mutations, multi-level', () => {
         },
         mutations: { bar: () => () => null },
         subduxes: {
-            mysub: updux({
+            mysub: {
                 effects: { baz: api => next => action => { }, },
                 mutations: { quux: () => () => null },
-            })
+                actions: {
+                    foo: (limit) => ({limit}),
+                },
+            },
+            myothersub: {
+                effects: {
+                    foo: () => () => () => {},
+                },
+            }
         },
     });
 
@@ -21,4 +29,10 @@ test( 'actions defined in effects and mutations, multi-level', () => {
 
     expect( types).toEqual([ 'bar', 'baz', 'foo', 'quux', ]);
 
+    expect( actions.bar() ).toEqual({ type: 'bar' });
+    expect( actions.bar('xxx') ).toEqual({ type: 'bar', payload: 'xxx' });
+    expect( actions.bar(undefined,'yyy') ).toEqual({ type: 'bar',meta: 'yyy' });
+
+    expect(actions.foo(12)).toEqual({type: 'foo', payload: { limit: 12 }});
+
 });

src/buildActions/index.js

@@ -1,20 +1,40 @@
 import fp from 'lodash/fp';
 
 function actionFor(type) {
-  return ( (payload = undefined, meta = undefined) =>
+  const creator = ( (payload = undefined, meta = undefined) =>
-    fp.pickBy(v => v !== null)({type, payload, meta})
+    fp.pickBy(v => v !== undefined)({type, payload, meta})
   );
+
+  creator._genericAction = true;
+
+  return creator;
 }
 
 export default function buildActions(
+  creators = {},
   mutations = {},
   effects = {},
-  subActions = {},
+  subActions = [],
 ) {
 
-  return { ...subActions,
+    // priority => generics => generic subs => craft subs => creators
-      ...fp.fromPairs([ ...Object.keys(mutations), ...Object.keys(effects) ]
+
-        .map( type => [ type, actionFor(type) ]))
+  const [ crafted, generic ] = fp.partition(
-  };
+      ([type,f]) => !f._genericAction
+  )(  fp.flatten( subActions.map( x => Object.entries(x) ) ).filter(
+      ([_,f]) => f
+  ) )
+
+    const actions = [
+        ...([ ...Object.keys(mutations), ...Object.keys(effects) ]
+            .map( type => [ type, actionFor(type) ] )),
+        ...generic,
+        ...crafted,
+        ...Object.entries(creators).map(
+            ([type, payload]) => [type, (...args) => ({ type, payload: payload(...args) })]
+        ),
+    ];
+
+    return fp.fromPairs(actions);
 
 }

src/updux.js

@@ -17,10 +17,10 @@ export class Updux {
 
 
         this.actions = buildActions(
+            config.actions,
             config.mutations,
             config.effects,
-            fp.mergeAll( Object.values( this.subduxes ).map( ({ actions }) =>
+            Object.values( this.subduxes ).map( ({actions}) => actions ),
-                actions ) )
         )
 
         this.initial = buildInitial(