Communication between services

[theobouwman]

I need some hel here.

For a new project I'm using the service pattern. I'm at the point now where I want the auth/user service to add a policy (set of rules) to a user.
Should I make a policy service and pass that to the auth/user service, or should I pass the policy repository to the auth/user service?

Thanks in advance.

[palvarezcordoba]

I think the you should pass the service, not the repository.
Important: auth/user should depend upon a interface, not the implementation of PolicyService.

[theobouwman]

Okay, so passing a service to another service as dependency is not against the design pattern?

[palvarezcordoba]

I don't see how it breaks rules of service pattern. Again, auth/user should use an interface not implementation.

And maybe you could simply do a Policy model and use it.