Hi,
I try to understand the concepts the comes after the “getting started” tutorial and I’ve read the reference manual multiple times. But I have still some questions where I cannot find an answer.
I have read that to create a new view (or change an existing), the event stream “simply” has to re-played. I found an old post at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/axonframework/replay/axonframework/Azkao_xY0hE/9vA-COwWaWIJ but this is from 1.x times and replay was not supported at this time. I could not find an example in the documentation who to replay an event stream in an application. And how can one prevent things from being executed more than once (e.g. sending E-Mails based on events)?
In the same post there was the idea to access the aggregates directly if an entry in the view table is missing. But I could not find a way to access aggegates outside of a unit of work. How could I do this? And is there a kind of “list all aggregates” method?
I wonder if accessing the aggregate would really solve the problem. If I understand right, an aggregate does not require to hold all the properties an event contains (e.g. in the address book sample, “Contact” does not have a “name” field. The aggregate root only handles the business logic). So accessing the aggregate would not provide all the information that the events provides.
Thank you for your help,
Michael.