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

The theory behind the mediator pattern

The mediator pattern is a way to encapsulate logic behind a unique entry point. It uses the concept of requests, responses, commands, or events to abstract the implementations behind a single entry point. This way of implementing the application logic helps the developers in your team keep the logic separated from the web part of the application. To understand how the mediator pattern works, let's take a look at its components.

The preceding schema describes a simple implementation of the mediator pattern. The consumer of the mediator calls the Send method by referring to the IMediator interface. The mediator implementation passes a specific type of the IRequest interface. Therefore, the Mediator instance ...