## What & why S-19b-2, closing out ADR-0028's stated direction: **the read projection is now derived from the `RegisterRecord` in Objecten, not from ZGW zaak events.** Until now the subscriber listened on `zaken` and *inferred* register state from case events — a `zaak/create` meant INGEDIEND, and any `status/create` was assumed to be the approval (it may not read OpenZaak, so it could not tell statustypen apart). The reference wasn't in the notification at all, so every projection made a second hop to the ACL. The register — a fact about a person — was being reconstructed by guessing at the lifecycle of the case that produced it. - The subscriber's abonnement moves to the `objecten` kanaal (S-19b-1 made it publish). - An Objecten notification carries **no record data**, only the object URL, so the record is read back through the ACL (`POST /register-records/read`) — §8.1 applies to Objecten exactly as ADR-0028 established. - The record carries `id`, `status` and `reference`, so the row *is* the record: `IsZaakCreated`, `IsZaakStatusSet`, `ZaakUrl`, `ZaakId` and `ToEntry`'s `Resource == "status"` inference are all gone, and so is the ACL enrichment hop. - **The ACL now writes an INGEDIEND record on submit.** Without it, re-sourcing would silently drop every submitted registration from the public register, since only approval wrote a record. - `processed_notifications` holds the projected row (`register_id`, `status`, `reference`) instead of the ZGW event, so a rebuild is a replay with no mapping rules and no upstream reads at all. **ADR-0030** records it. ADR-0028's open caveat — record written but not yet read, "the two must agree" — is closed: there is one source now. Closes #153 ## Definition of Done - [x] Linked Gitea issue (above). - [x] Failing tests committed before the implementation — two red/green pairs, ACL side (06c0444→566ef7d) and subscriber side (142ed45→8af09b2). - [x] Refactor commit follows (b496ac9). - [x] Conventional Commits referencing the issue (`refs #153`). - [x] CI green — all six jobs onb30fa66, `verify-stack` end to end including the e2e. - [x] `docker compose up` from a fresh clone reaches green health checks within 3 minutes (`verify-stack`'s bring-up step — see the wait-healthy fix below). - [x] Docs updated — ADR-0030 added, ADR-0028's consequence + caveat annotated, BACKLOG.md, e2e header comment. - [x] ADR added in `docs/architecture/`. - [x] Demo note in `docs/demo-script.md` — n/a: no user-visible change. The openbaar register shows the same two statuses for the same registrations; only where they come from changed. ## Notes for reviewers **The decision I'd most like a second opinion on** is the one the issue didn't settle: what happens to INGEDIEND. Objecten held only INGESCHREVEN records, so re-sourcing forced a choice between (a) the ACL also writing on submit, (b) a public register that lists only actual registrations, or (c) a hybrid keeping both kanalen. I took (a): visible behaviour is unchanged and the register holds the whole lifecycle. (b) is arguably the better *semantics* for a public register but narrows what the portal shows and reads against PRD §68 ("~50 register entries with diverse statuses"); (c) leaves the projection half-derived from ZGW, which is the coupling ADR-0028 set out to remove. All three are laid out in ADR-0030. **The dedup key is the projected row**, `objecten:object:{url}:{status}:{reference}` — not the object URL (the ACL upserts *one object per registration*, so submit and approval notify about the same URL and the approval would be swallowed as a duplicate) and not URL+actie (a retried approval is a second `update`). Redeliveries collapse, genuine state changes don't. §8.6. **The migration drops columns rather than renaming them.** EF scaffolded renames — `resource` → `register_id`, `zaak_id` → `status` — which would have carried ZGW values into columns meaning something else, and a rebuild would then have projected that garbage. It also empties both tables: a pre-slice row describes a zaak event the new projector can't reproject, and those registrations have no RegisterRecord in Objecten either, so they're not re-derivable from the new source. Stated as a ceiling in the ADR — fine while stacks are ephemeral, backfill from Objecten if a long-lived environment ever needs it. **`run-projection-check.sh` now opens its zaak through the ACL** instead of straight against OpenZaak, because the ACL is what writes the record. A zaak created behind the ACL's back produces no projection row — that's the re-source working, not a gap. ## Three fixes CI found, none of them in the projection logic 1. **`wait-healthy.sh` matched the wrong container** (744f91a). Bring-up timed out with `TIMEOUT: 'objecten' not healthy (status=none)` while the `docker ps` it dumps showed objecten `Up 9 minutes (healthy)`. `--filter name=` is a substring match, so `objecten` also matches `objecten-db`/`objecten-redis`/`objecten-celery`, and `head -1` took whichever docker listed first — the celery worker has no healthcheck, hence `status=none`. Latent since those services landed and decided purely by listing order; `objecttypen` matches `objecttypen-db` the same way. Anchored on the compose replica suffix, which the verify scripts already do. 2. **The ACL had to be repointed at OpenZaak's IP** (7e0897a). Opening the zaak through the ACL put this check in the same bind run-domain-check.sh already handles: `400 {"name":"zaaktype","code":"bad-url","reason":"Voer een geldige URL in."}`. OpenZaak reflects the request Host into the zaaktype URL and then rejects it on zaak-create when single-label — the mechanism compose already documents on `ACL_OPENZAAK_BASEURL`. 3. **Approval arrives as `partial_update`, not `update`** (0dd26a7→b30fa66) — the one real bug in the slice. The ACL upserts with PATCH; DRF routes it through the notifying `update()` but names the action `partial_update`, so the projector dropped every approval. Only the e2e could catch it: `verify-projection` drives a submit, and per ADR-0028 the e2e is the only check that drives a *real* approval. `verify-tracing` also failed once (run 722) on a path this PR doesn't touch, and passed on a plain re-run of the same commit. Tempo logged `pusher failed to consume trace data` / `distributor_pool failing healthcheck` — it dropped spans under runner load rather than the trace chain being broken. Filed as **#156** rather than absorbed here. **Correction to the #152 PR notes:** I wrote there that celery concurrency was "the next knob" if verify-stack got tight. It isn't — `CELERY_WORKER_CONCURRENCY` already defaults to 1 in the Maykin image, so `objecten-celery` is already a single-process worker. Noted in #156. **Possible follow-up, deliberately not done here:** an `openzaak.local` network alias mirroring `objecten.local` would remove the ACL-repoint dance from both run-domain-check.sh and run-projection-check.sh. It changes the host in every zaak URL the system produces, which is too broad a ripple to land inside an unrelated slice — worth its own issue. **Known costs, all in the ADR:** submission is now two writes across two modules and eventually consistent (same posture ADR-0028 accepted for approval); projecting now depends on the ACL being reachable on the main path, not just for enrichment (NRC retries, so it converges); and OpenZaak still publishes to `zaken` with nothing in the product listening — kept because `verify-nrc` asserts that path.Reviewed-on: #155
register-reference
A reference application demonstrating how to build a Dutch government register (a BIG-style professional register) on top of unforked Common Ground modules — OpenZaak, Open Notificaties, Objecten, Open Klant — with loose coupling, modern workflow tooling, and data-governance ready integration points.
This repository is the runnable companion to Respellion's Foundations playbook entry on Common Ground architecture for non-municipal contexts (CIBG, DUO, RVO, and similar uitvoeringsorganisaties).
Status: under active development. See BACKLOG.md for the current iteration.
Start here
| Document | Purpose |
|---|---|
| docs/PRD.md | What we're building and why. Goals, non-goals, architecture summary, scope. Read once at project start. |
| CLAUDE.md | How we work. Engineering principles, TDD/DDD/BDD discipline, non-negotiable architectural rules, Gitea conventions. Read every task. |
| BACKLOG.md | Iteration plan. A curated mirror of the active Gitea milestone — Gitea Issues are the system of record. |
| docs/architecture/ | Diagrams (Mermaid sources) and ADRs. Start with adr-0001-loose-coupling.md. |
| docs/runbooks/ | Operational guides: local startup, seeding, common failures, CI debugging. |
The day-to-day operational pages — environment URLs, known issues right now, on-call notes — live in the Gitea Wiki for this repository. The wiki points at docs/ for anything authoritative.
What this application demonstrates
- A BIG-style professional register modelled on Dutch public-sector patterns, with four end-user portals: self-service, openbaar register, behandel-portal, beheer-portal.
- Common Ground modules as upstream peers — never forked, reached only via documented APIs (ZGW, NRC events).
- An Anti-Corruption Layer that confines all ZGW knowledge to one place, so the rest of the codebase stays domain-shaped rather than municipality-shaped.
- BPMN + DMN workflows via Flowable as a separate, swappable module — using the external-task job-worker pattern so BPMN models never reach into OpenZaak.
- A read projection as the public-facing data path, decoupled from the authoritative modules.
- Synthetic data and mock identity (Keycloak realms standing in for DigiD, eHerkenning, eIDAS, and a medewerker IdP) so the whole system runs locally without external dependencies.
- TDD, DDD, BDD, mutation testing, ADRs, and Conventional Commits as enforced defaults — encoded in CI.
- Gitea-native delivery: source, issues, milestones, project boards, releases, container registry, packages, wiki, and Actions.
For the architecture rationale, see docs/PRD.md §3 and docs/architecture/.
Local quickstart
Prerequisites
- .NET 10 SDK (for
make lint/build/unit) - A container engine with Compose v2 — Docker, or rootless Podman (see docs/runbooks/ci.md for the Podman + Compose-provider setup)
make,curl,git- ~4 GB free RAM, ~5 GB free disk (grows as services land)
Clone
git clone git@git.labs.respellion.tech:eho/register-referentie.git
cd register-referentie
Wired today (Iteration 0): only the placeholder BFF exists so far. Get to green in under 10 minutes — run the full check gate, or just the running service:
make ci # lint + build + unit + container smoke — the CI gate
docker compose -f infra/docker-compose.yml up -d --build --wait
curl http://localhost:8080/health # -> Healthy
--wait exits non-zero unless the container reports healthy, so it doubles as the compose-up smoke test. The remaining services and the URLs below land in later slices.
Target service URLs (most land in later slices)
| Service | URL |
|---|---|
| Self-Service portal | http://localhost:4200 |
| Openbaar register | http://localhost:4201 |
| Behandel-portal | http://localhost:4202 |
| Beheer-portal | http://localhost:4203 |
| BFF | http://localhost:8080 |
| OpenZaak | http://localhost:8000 |
| Open Notificaties | http://localhost:8001 |
| Flowable | http://localhost:8080 |
| Keycloak | http://localhost:8180 |
| MkDocs site (after build) | http://localhost:8000/docs/ |
Test credentials, BSNs, and personas: see docs/synthetic-data.md.
Build the docs site
python3 -m venv .venv && .venv/bin/pip install mkdocs-material
.venv/bin/mkdocs serve # live preview at http://localhost:8000
.venv/bin/mkdocs build # static site in ./site
Repository layout
register-reference/
├── apps/ # Angular portals (Nx monorepo)
│ ├── self-service/
│ ├── openbaar/
│ ├── behandel/
│ └── beheer/
├── libs/ # shared Angular libs (UI, auth, generated API client)
├── services/ # .NET services
│ ├── bff/
│ ├── domain/ # BIG Domain Service
│ ├── acl/ # Anti-Corruption Layer (the only code that knows ZGW)
│ ├── event-subscriber/
│ └── projection-api/
├── workflows/ # BPMN + DMN sources
├── infra/ # docker-compose, Keycloak, OpenZaak, Flowable, seed
├── tests/
│ ├── acceptance/ # Gherkin / Reqnroll BDD scenarios
│ └── e2e/ # Playwright
├── docs/ # versioned documentation (MkDocs source)
├── .gitea/ # Gitea Actions workflows, issue/PR templates
├── CLAUDE.md # working agreements
├── BACKLOG.md # iteration plan (mirror of active milestone)
└── README.md
Full description in docs/PRD.md §9.
Working in this repository
Source of truth for work: Gitea Issues + Milestones for this repository. BACKLOG.md is a mirror.
Branching: trunk-based. Short-lived branches off main, named <type>/<issue-number>-<short-slug> (e.g. feat/14-acl-default-fill).
Commits: Conventional Commits, referencing the Gitea issue:
feat(acl): default-fill bronorganisatie (refs #14)
The merging PR closes the issue via closes #14 in the squash-commit body.
Pull Requests: the unit of review. Squash-merged. PR template enforces the Definition of Done checklist from CLAUDE.md §3.
Releases: CalVer (YYYY.MM.PATCH), tagged on main, changelog generated by git-cliff, published as a Gitea Release with container images in the Gitea Container Registry.
See CLAUDE.md for the full working agreements, the architectural non-negotiables, and the rules Claude Code follows on every task.
Testing
- Unit tests — dominant. .NET (xUnit) and Angular (Vitest / Testing Library).
- Integration tests — Testcontainers-driven, exercising real OpenZaak, Flowable, NRC.
- Acceptance tests — Gherkin scenarios in
tests/acceptance/, one per user-visible flow. - End-to-end — Playwright, expanding slice by slice from the walking-skeleton happy path.
- Mutation testing — Stryker.NET and Stryker, baseline-ratcheted on
main.
Run everything:
./tools/test-all.sh
Run a focused slice (example):
dotnet test services/acl
Contributing
- Find or open a Gitea issue using one of the templates in
.gitea/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/(slice.md,bug.md,adr-proposal.md). - Assign yourself, move it to "In progress" on the milestone's project board.
- Branch off
main, follow the CLAUDE.md working agreements (TDD: red commit → green commit → refactor commit). - Open a PR using the template, link the issue, ensure the Gitea Actions pipeline is green.
- Squash-merge once approved. The merging commit closes the issue.
If a task pushes against any of the architectural rules in CLAUDE.md §8, stop and open an adr-proposal issue first. That conversation is more important than the code.
License and attribution
Respellion-authored code is licensed under EUPL-1.2. Upstream Common Ground modules retain their own licences (typically EUPL-1.2 or MIT — see each module's repository).
This reference application is not an official product of CIBG, DUO, VNG Realisatie, or any government body. It is a Respellion playbook artefact illustrating an architectural pattern.
Contact
- Issues, questions, proposals: open a Gitea issue on this repository.
- Architectural discussion: start with an
adr-proposalissue. - Anything sensitive: contact Respellion through the channel in
docs/runbooks/contact.md.