Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development

Writing input models

Input models define the user input the service is receiving from the user or client. It is important to differentiate the database models as they may vary in what they contain. Just like we defined the input models for the product management service as well as the user management service, we need to define the correct models here.

We have to write input models for the following purposes:

• Order submission: The content of an order
• Payment submission: The information needed for the payment
• Product information: The information we retrieve from the PMS

Follow these steps to create the input models:

1. Open the Sources/App/Models/Input folder, create an OrderItemInput.swift file, and insert the following code:

import Vapor ...