[NFR]: Debug bar support for ADR / non-MVC apps
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Since Jul 22, 2026.
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Description
Context: phalcon/debugbar can only be booted and injected against a Phalcon\Mvc\Application, and its collectors gather data by subscribing to MVC event names. That makes the bar unusable in an ADR app (Phalcon\ADR), which was discovered while wiring phalcon/vokuro-adr (the bar is a dependency there but entirely unused). The goal is to make the bar work on ADR - and, by construction, on any framework - without forcing Phalcon\Di\DiInterface back into the ADR delivery ring. Motivation: ADR is a strong pattern for HTML apps, not only JSON, and the debug bar should not be MVC-only.
Events-manager strategy #15
The root coupling is that collectors know framework event names. Break it with three layers:
- A canonical debug-bar signal set the bar owns — a small, stable vocabulary (
query,view.rendered,route.matched,request.received,response.sending). Collectors subscribe only to these. - A per-framework bridge that maps native signals to canonical ones — MVC listens to
db:afterQuery/view:*/router:matchedRoute; ADR listens toPIPELINE_*/APPLICATION_*or instruments directly. - A direct push API on collectors for hosts with no events manager — the bridge pushes.
The events manager then becomes an implementation detail of the active bridge, not a hard dependency of the collectors.
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