Lifecycle Hooks

Quark dispatches lifecycle hooks around every CRUD and read operation. Implement the corresponding interface on *Model and Quark picks it up automatically — no registration.

type Order struct {
    ID     int64  `db:"id" pk:"true"`
    Status string `db:"status"`
}

// Implements quark.BeforeCreateHook.
func (o *Order) BeforeCreate(ctx context.Context) error {
    if o.Status == "" {
        o.Status = "pending"
    }
    return nil
}

// Implements quark.AfterCreateHook.
func (o *Order) AfterCreate(ctx context.Context) error {
    return audit.Log(ctx, "order.created", o.ID)
}

When each hook fires

Hook	Phase	Fires from
BeforeCreateHook	Before INSERT	Create
AfterCreateHook	After commit (in tx) / after INSERT (no tx)	Create
BeforeUpdateHook	Before UPDATE	Update, UpdateFields, Tracked.Save
AfterUpdateHook	After commit (in tx) / after UPDATE (no tx)	Update, UpdateFields, Tracked.Save
BeforeDeleteHook	Before DELETE	Delete
AfterDeleteHook	After commit (in tx) / after DELETE (no tx)	Delete
BeforeFindHook	Before SELECT is built	List, First, Find, Iter, Cursor
AfterFindHook	After scan + Preload	List, First, Find, Iter, Cursor

Bulk and WHERE-based variants — CreateBatch, UpdateBatch, DeleteBatch, DeleteBy — currently bypass hooks entirely. See Limitations below for the reasoning.

Before* vs After*: what changed in v0.9.0

Starting in v0.9.0 (Fase 5, F5-4), the timing of After* hooks inside an explicit transaction shifted from "immediately after the SQL" to "after the transaction commits". The change closes a race in v0.8.0 and earlier where an After* hook could fire while the surrounding transaction had not yet committed — and could still roll back, leaving the side-effect orphaned.

	v0.8.0 and earlier	v0.9.0
BeforeX inside Client.Tx	Inline before SQL, returning err rolls back	Same
BeforeX outside tx	Inline before SQL, returning err aborts the op	Same
AfterX inside Client.Tx	Inline after SQL (before commit — racy)	After commit succeeds (queued; rolled-back tx drops them)
AfterX outside tx	Inline after SQL	Same — non-tx CRUD does NOT wrap in implicit tx

The non-transactional path is intentionally unchanged. Wrapping every single-statement CRUD in an implicit transaction would add two round-trips (BeginTx + Commit) per call and a connection pin — the safety it would buy is exactly zero because there is no transaction to roll back. For[T].Create stays a "fire and forget" shape; the breaking change is scoped to callers who used Client.Tx (which is the path that actually had the race).

See docs/MIGRATION_v0.9.0.md for the audit checklist.

How post-commit After* hooks are implemented

Each *quark.Tx carries a FIFO queue of queued After* hooks. When the CRUD path detects that a Query[T] is bound to a tx (ForTx[T](ctx, tx) populates the back-reference), the hook closure is appended to the queue instead of being invoked inline. Tx.Commit() drains the queue after the underlying *sql.Tx.Commit() succeeds; Tx.Rollback() discards it.

err := client.Tx(ctx, func(tx *quark.Tx) error {
    for _, o := range orders {
        if err := quark.ForTx[Order](ctx, tx).Create(&o); err != nil {
            return err   // BeforeCreate already ran; AfterCreate is discarded.
        }
    }
    return nil           // BeforeCreate ran for each; AfterCreate fires
                          // for each once Commit succeeds, in FIFO order.
})

A hook returning an error post-commit is logged via the Client's *slog.Logger (event quark.hook.after_post_commit_error) and the cascade continues — once the database has confirmed the commit, no application-level handler can undo it.

Read hooks (BeforeFind / AfterFind)

The Find hooks are new in v0.9.0. Their signatures match the rest of the hook family — only ctx, no result slice. Implementations that need to inspect the scanned data should either propagate state through ctx or implement enrichment as a Scope helper around the query rather than as a hook.

type Document struct {
    ID       int64  `db:"id" pk:"true"`
    TenantID string `db:"tenant_id"`
}

// BeforeFind runs once per query call (List, Find, First, Iter, Cursor),
// before any SQL is built. Use it for audit / telemetry.
func (d *Document) BeforeFind(ctx context.Context) error {
    return audit.LogRead(ctx, "documents.read")
}

// AfterFind runs once per query call after the result is hydrated
// (including Preload). Use it for cross-cutting enrichment or
// read-side instrumentation.
func (d *Document) AfterFind(ctx context.Context) error {
    return audit.LogReadComplete(ctx, "documents.read")
}

AfterFind for Iter fires only when the streaming loop completes without error. AfterFind for Cursor fires from Cursor.Close() when rows.Err() is nil.

Hook ordering inside a transaction

Multiple CRUD operations inside the same Client.Tx queue their After* hooks in FIFO order. If you create three orders inside one tx, the three AfterCreate hooks fire in the same order at commit time.

BeforeCreate(o1) → INSERT → BeforeCreate(o2) → INSERT → BeforeCreate(o3) → INSERT
                                                                                  ↓
                                                                       Tx.Commit succeeds
                                                                                  ↓
                                          AfterCreate(o1) → AfterCreate(o2) → AfterCreate(o3)

If you need different ordering — say, run a single event emission after ALL inserts have committed rather than one AfterCreate per row — register a Tx.OnCommit callback. OnCommit callbacks fire once per transaction, FIFO, after all the model After* hooks:

err := client.Tx(ctx, func(tx *quark.Tx) error {
    var ids []int64
    for _, o := range orders {
        if err := quark.ForTx[Order](ctx, tx).Create(&o); err != nil {
            return err
        }
        ids = append(ids, o.ID)
    }
    tx.OnCommit(func(ctx context.Context) error {
        return bus.PublishBatch(ctx, "orders.created", ids)
    })
    return nil
})

If you don't need the transaction context, the equivalent is to place the cross-cutting work after Client.Tx returns nil:

err := client.Tx(ctx, fn)
if err == nil {
    bus.PublishBatch(ctx, "orders.created", ids)
}

Limitations

• Hooks dispatch on the entity value for Create/Update/Delete and on a zero *T for Find. The CRUD hooks see the actual struct the caller passed in (with all its fields). The Find hooks see a zero-value *T because there is no entity instance at query time; they can read context but not entity state.

• Hooks cannot mutate the Query[T]. They receive ctx, not the builder. Use scope helpers if you need conditional WHERE / ORDER injection.

• Tracked.Save runs both BeforeUpdate and AfterUpdate — treats the save as an update from the recorded snapshot, so the hook contract matches plain Update.

• Batch and WHERE-based operations (CreateBatch, UpdateBatch, DeleteBatch, DeleteBy) currently bypass hooks. Bulk paths skip the per-row dispatch by design; DeleteBy issues a single WHERE-based DELETE without loading the affected rows, so there is no entity instance to call the hook on. If you need hooks for those paths, load the rows first and loop through the single-row CRUD methods.

• Savepoints inside Tx.Tx(nestedFn) roll back the SQL but do NOT remove already-queued After* hooks from the outer transaction's queue. If the nested callback issues CRUD, queues hooks, then returns an error that triggers RollbackTo, those hooks remain queued and will fire when the outer Commit succeeds — even though their underlying SQL was reverted. This gap was present before v0.9.0 and is documented here for the first time because F5-4 makes it observable. The same caveat applies to Tx.OnCommit callbacks registered between a Savepoint and its RollbackTo. Until a future release closes the gap, prefer flat Client.Tx callbacks without nested savepoint Tx() over hook-heavy code when fine-grained savepoint behaviour matters.