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Architecting ASP.NET Core Applications

You're reading from   Architecting ASP.NET Core Applications An atypical design patterns guide for .NET 8, C# 12, and beyond

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805123385
Length 806 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Principles and Methodologies FREE CHAPTER
2. Introduction 3. Automated Testing 4. Architectural Principles 5. REST APIs 6. Section 2: Designing with ASP.NET Core
7. Minimal APIs 8. Model-View-Controller 9. Strategy, Abstract Factory, and Singleton Design Patterns 10. Dependency Injection 11. Application Configuration and the Options Pattern 12. Logging Patterns 13. Section 3: Component Patterns
14. Structural Patterns 15. Behavioral Patterns 16. Operation Result Pattern 17. Section 4: Application Patterns 18. Layering and Clean Architecture 19. Object Mappers 20. Mediator and CQS Patterns 21. Getting Started with Vertical Slice Architecture 22. Request-EndPoint-Response (REPR) 23. Introduction to Microservices Architecture 24. Modular Monolith 25. Other Books You May Enjoy
26. Index

Using Minimal APIs with Data Transfer Objects

This section explores leveraging the Data Transfer Object (DTO) pattern with Minimal APIs.

This section is the same as we explore in Chapter 6, Model-View-Controller, but in the context of Minimal APIs. Moreover, the two code projects are part of the same Visual Studio solution for convenience, allowing you to compare the two implementations.

Goal

As a reminder, DTOs aim to control the inputs and outputs of an endpoint by decoupling the API contract from the application’s inner workings. DTOs empower us to define our APIs without thinking about the underlying data structures, leaving us to craft our REST APIs how we want.

We discuss REST APIs and DTOs in more depth in Chapter 4, REST APIs.

Other possible objectives are to save bandwidth by limiting the amount of information the API transmits, flattening the data structure, or adding API features that cross multiple entities.

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