Hands-On RESTful Web Services with ASP.NET Core 3

Implementing request models

Now, let's look at the implementation of some DTOs in practice. The Order entity describes some actions that accept List<string> as input. Let's suppose that the implementation is getting more complex and our service needs to store additional information about our orders:

using System;using System.Collections.Generic;namespace SampleAPI.Models {  public class Order     {         public Guid Id { get; set; }         public IEnumerable<string> ItemsIds { get; set; }         public string Currency { get; set; }     } }

The domain model is a critical part of our application. It is essential to keep it separated from the request/response model. Therefore, we should avoid having the domain model tightly coupled with the request and the response models. ...