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How to properly design database in accordance with DDD
My Domain layer contains below model: public class ApiResource { public bool Enabled { get; set; } = true; public string Name { get; set; } public string ClientId { get; set; } public ...
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Doubt about DDD, entity core and backing field
I was reading the documentation about how to use Entity Core in a DDD way. This is the documentation. It is said that I can configure EF to can map an internal private field to a private field, the ...
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Posts and Comments - how should I define them in domain driven design?
I am designing a blog in domain driven design. I don't know how I should define models: Post and Comment. My database: A user can see a post and related comments. So I think that Post model can be ...
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Does injecting ILazyLoader inside entities in EF contradicts separation of concerns in design?
Microsoft suggests to inject ILazyLoader service inside entities in order to enable lazy loading manually in EF: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/querying/related-data/lazy#lazy-loading-...
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Should an AggregateRoot not be a database Entity?
TLDR: Does using DB objects as my AggregateRoot lead to bloated God objects. In comparison to the issues I see in using separate DbObjects and DDD objects. I'm trying to bring together my ...
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Entity Framework and Domain Driven Design Testability
I'm using a DDD approach for the Domain classes. Although, I have a problem on my design, that I'm handling it now but didn't have a good idea to over tackle it. My Architecture is the follow one: - ...
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Avoiding Repository pattern - implementing Onion Architecture with DbContext only
I am trying to follow the Onion Architecture to design my application where I have the following layers - Domain Layer: is the inner-most layer and defines repository interfaces Infrastructure Layer:...
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Different types of account transactions
I'm working on a system where users have different types of 'Accounts' of the financial type. I'm struggling to come up with a design that works. Background A user has 2 types of accounts: A 'tab' ...
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DataAccess Layer coupling with Domain Layer
We have an issue with how the implementation of the Data Access layer (EF6 Includes more specifically), influences the behavior of our Domain layer. A theoretical example to illustrate: Application ...
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Is a refresh token an entity or value object?
I have a User entity, which may have a RefreshToken (for authentication). Notes: A refresh token doesn't have "identity", but is related to a single user - it is only valid for that user. In the db ...
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Is a repository return a graph of entities violating SRP?
I'm working in this scenario Post entity has many Image entities. I also have repository to both entities: PostRepository ImageRepository Since this entities are tightly related, when I get a Post I ...
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Patterns for loading related objects in memory (without an ORM)
I am using ADO.NET to read a bunch of data from the database into in-memory objects. This is my domain model: // Question.cs public class Question { public int ID { get; set; } public ...
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Pitfalls of Domain Driven Design with Entity Framework
A lot of tutorials on DDD I studied are mostly covering theory. They all have rudimentary code examples (Pluralsight and similar). On the web there are also attempts by a few people to create ...
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Separating Domain Object and Data Models
I looked through a lot of articles, blogs, and SO topics about separating domain object and data models. Almost every answer said: You should have separate classes for the domain and data persistence, ...
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Role-based declarative security for C#
According to Domain Driven Design and Development In Practice: Spring Security (a sub-project in Spring Portfolio) provides a fine-grained access control in both presentation (URL based) and ...
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