Implementing Domain-Driven Design

Implementing the RESTful Resource

As SaaSOvation started applying REST principles to one of their Bounded Contexts, they learned some important lessons. Let’s look in on their journey.

As the SaaSOvation team working in the Identity and Access Context considered how to provide an Open Host Service for integrators, they considered simply exposing their domain model as a set of RESTful linked resources. That would mean allowing HTTP clients to GET a unique tenant resource and navigate through its users, groups, and roles. Was that a good idea? It seemed natural at first. After all, that would afford clients with the greatest flexibility. Clients could know everything about the domain model and just make decisions in their own Bounded Context. ...