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Actions, Commands or Services?	2025-01-06	daily/2025/01/06/actions-commands-services	software-development drupal php	~	To Action or not to Action? I was writing a new class today and wondered whether it should be an Action, Command or Service. Which would you pick?

Today I started to write a new class and was trying to decide what to name it and what pattern I wanted to follow.

Option 1:

class StoreInformationDownloader {

  public function download() {
    // ...
  }
}

Option 2:

class DownloadStoreInformation {

  public function execute() {
    // ...
  }
}

Option 1 is a typical Service class.

Option 2 follows the Command or Action pattern.

Which would you choose?