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title: "DI and actions — Contacts for Laravel | Roundly"
description: "Inject ContactsManager for the facade’s API without static calls, or run one of the eight single-purpose contact actions directly."
url: https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/contacts-for-laravel/without-facade
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---

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# DI and actions

The facade is sugar — there are three equivalent entry points, and the choice is yours:

- The Contacts facade — the shortest, and the recommended default.
- The manager, injected through the constructor — the same API as an explicit dependency, with no static calls. RoundlyConsulting\\Contacts\\ContactsManager is the facade root, bound as a singleton.
- Actions — single-purpose classes with an execute() method, for composing into your own actions, jobs and commands.

## Injecting the manager

Contacts::fake() swaps the manager binding, so constructor-injected code is recorded too:

```php
use App\Models\User;
use RoundlyConsulting\Contacts\ContactsManager;
use RoundlyConsulting\Contacts\Models\Contact;

final readonly class AddWorkEmail
{
    public function __construct(private ContactsManager $contacts) {}

    public function __invoke(User $user, string $email): Contact
    {
        $contact = $this->contacts->for($user)->email($email)->label('Work')->primary()->add();

        $this->contacts->verification()->request($contact);

        return $contact;
    }
}
```

## Running an action

Every write on the facade is one action, resolved from the container:

| Facade call | Action |
| --- | --- |
| `for($owner)->…->add(), for($owner)->add($data)` | `AddContactAction::execute($owner, $data)` |
| `for($owner)->sync($type, $items)` | `SyncContactsAction::execute($owner, $type, $items)` |
| `update($contact, $data)` | `UpdateContactAction::execute($contact, $data)` |
| `delete($contact)` | `DeleteContactAction::execute($contact)` |
| `setPrimary($contact)` | `SetPrimaryContactAction::execute($contact)` |
| `verification()->request($contact)` | `RequestContactVerificationAction::execute($contact)` |
| `verification()->confirm($contact, $token)` | `ConfirmContactVerificationAction::execute($contact, $token)` |
| `verification()->markVerified($contact, $at)` | `VerifyContactAction::execute($contact, $at)` |

```php
use RoundlyConsulting\Contacts\Actions\AddContactAction;
use RoundlyConsulting\Contacts\Actions\RequestContactVerificationAction;
use RoundlyConsulting\Contacts\DataTransferObjects\ContactData;
use RoundlyConsulting\Contacts\Enums\ContactType;

$contact = app(AddContactAction::class)->execute($user, new ContactData(ContactType::Email, 'a@b.com'));
$token = app(RequestContactVerificationAction::class)->execute($contact);
```

Each action takes the owner or contact and a ContactData DTO where it needs one, and applies the same normalization, validation, primary handling and events as the facade. An action you call directly runs for real — Contacts::fake() records calls that go through the manager.

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