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Get Your Hands Dirty on Clean Architecture

You're reading from   Get Your Hands Dirty on Clean Architecture Build ‘clean' applications with code examples in Java

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839211966
Length 156 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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About the Book 1. What's Wrong with Layers? FREE CHAPTER 2. Inverting Dependencies 3. Organizing Code 4. Implementing a Use Case 5. Implementing a Web Adapter 6. Implementing a Persistence Adapter 7. Testing Architecture Elements 8. Mapping Between Boundaries 9. Assembling the Application 10. Enforcing Architecture Boundaries 11. Taking Shortcuts Consciously 12. Deciding on an Architecture Style

Using Domain Entities as Input or Output Models

If we have an Account domain entity and an incoming port, SendMoneyUseCase, we might be tempted to use the entity as the input and/or output model of the incoming port, as shown in the following figure:

Figure 11.2: Using a domain entity as the input or output model of a use case couples the domain entity to the use case

The incoming port has a dependency on the domain entity. The consequence of this is that we have added another reason for the Account entity to change.

Wait, the Account entity doesn't have a dependency on the SendMoneyUseCase incoming port (it's the other way around), so how can the incoming port be a reason to change for the entity?

Say we need some information about an account in the use case that is not currently available in the Account entity. This information is ultimately not to be stored in the Account entity, however, but in a different domain or bounded context. We are tempted to add a new field...

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