Short answer: No. Long answer: repository is responsible for turning persisted data back to entities (models) and vice versa. Model is a business Model representing a business entity. DTO on the other hand – while looks like Model – is concerned with transfer of the object between various environment and in essence is a transient … Read more
A benefit of having a mapper that sits between your domain and your DTO is not as appearent when you are only supporting a single mapping, but as the number of mappings increases, having that code isolated from the domain helps keep the domain simpler and leaner. You won’t be cluttering your domain with a … Read more
How about some reflection, perhaps using Expression.Compile() for performance? (note the static ctor here ensures we only compile it once per T): using System; using System.Linq.Expressions; public class Report { public int Id { get; set; } public int ProjectId { get; set; } static void Main() { Report a = new Report { Id … Read more
Some projects have all data twice. Once as domain objects, and once as data transfer objects. This duplication has a huge cost, so the architecture needs to get a huge benefit from this separation to be worth it.
Why you should use DTOs in your REST API DTO stands for Data Transfer Object. This pattern was created with a very well defined purpose: transfer data to remote interfaces, just like web services. This pattern fits very well in a REST API and DTOs will give you more flexibility in the long run. The … Read more
A POCO follows the rules of OOP. It should (but doesn’t have to) have state and behavior. POCO comes from POJO, coined by Martin Fowler [anecdote here]. He used the term POJO as a way to make it more sexy to reject the framework heavy EJB implementations. POCO should be used in the same context … Read more
JavaBeans A JavaBean is a class that follows the JavaBeans conventions as defined by Sun. Wikipedia has a pretty good summary of what JavaBeans are: JavaBeans are reusable software components for Java that can be manipulated visually in a builder tool. Practically, they are classes written in the Java programming language conforming to a particular … Read more
A Data Transfer Object is an object that is used to encapsulate data, and send it from one subsystem of an application to another. DTOs are most commonly used by the Services layer in an N-Tier application to transfer data between itself and the UI layer. The main benefit here is that it reduces the … Read more
There are some libraries around there: Commons-BeanUtils: ConvertUtils -> Utility methods for converting String scalar values to objects of the specified Class, String arrays to arrays of the specified Class. Commons-Lang: ArrayUtils -> Operations on arrays, primitive arrays (like int[]) and primitive wrapper arrays (like Integer[]). Spring framework: Spring has an excellent support for PropertyEditors, … Read more