issue with pre-defined execution order of fflib unit of work

Question

The commitWork() method in the class fflib_SObjectUnitOfWork has a predefined order of execution that always sends the emails at last, as it can be seen as follows:

private void doCommitWork()
{
        onCommitWorkStarting();
        onPublishBeforeEventsStarting();
        publishBeforeEventsStarting();
        onPublishBeforeEventsFinished();

        onDMLStarting();
        insertDmlByType();
        updateDmlByType();
        deleteDmlByType();
        emptyRecycleBinByType();
        resolveEmailRelationships();
        onDMLFinished();

        onDoWorkStarting();
        doWork();
        onDoWorkFinished();
        onCommitWorkFinishing();
}  

private void doWork()
{
        m_workList.add(m_emailWork);
        for (IDoWork work : m_workList)
        {
            work.doWork();
        }
}

Source

I would like to send the emails first and then execute the update DML. Is this possible? I would like to send an email with the state of the objects before updating the objects but with the fflib unit of work I am forced to always send the emails at last.

Answer 1

There is an open issue in the fflib/apex-common repo to address this

When I had this issue, I implemented everything in my IDoWork worker so I could get the order I wanted.