How to improve method structure to reduce params?

Question

In many methods in the service classes I am repeating the code like this:

$model->addEvent($provider->id, 'installing', 'username', 'add', 'Description of event');

$this->worker->uploadFile($provider->id, 'root', $file);

Many different $model will have addEvent() which is done via trait.

How can I refactor those two lines into a method with readable/memorable parameters?

I have tried the following:

public function deploy($model, $providerId, $status, $user, $action, $file, $description = null)
{
   $model->addEvent($providerId, $status, $user, $action, $description);

   $this->serverWorker->uploadFile($providerId, $user, $file);
}

What I don't like about this method that there is too many params.

Usage:

Eg 1. deploy($site, 1, 'In Queue', 'root', 'create', $file, 'Installing Site domain.com')

Eg 2. deploy($rule, 1, 'In Queue', 'root', 'update', $file, 'Updating Rule')

Eg 2. deploy($something, 1, 'In Queue', 'root', 'delete', $file)

Answer 1

You could try wrapping the common configurations into small reusable classes like so:

public function deploy($model, FileDeployTarget $target, $description = null)
{
   $model->addEvent($target->providerId, $target->status, $target->user, $target->action, $description);

   $this->serverWorker->uploadFile($target->providerId, $target->user, $target->file);
}

And somewhere else:

class UpdateInQueue extends FileDeployTarget {
    public $status = 'In Queue';
    public $action = 'update';
}

FileDeployTarget and descendants would handle all extra parameters in their constructors.