Tagged articles - IModelBinder

While designing the REST API, quite often you may find yourself in a situation where the data can be provided from multiple sources, like route, query string or POST/PUT payload. While that might not be a big problem, it may force you to redesign your models and most likely you will end up with keeping your original DTOs but then designing a new model in your application services layer just to have all your data from different sources in one place when you are passing it to the service method. Resolving multiple sources custom binding ...read more

Patterns, conventions and standards are invented and enforced in order to make coding easier and more understandable for the developers, but in some cases certain patterns and conventions do not couple so easily and you have to rely on more on the actual technology you are using in order to overcome these complications. One of the cases this happens is using CQRS, especially commands and REST. Although commands give clear separation of intention of some action, at the same time commands are especially tough to handle in soma cases because of their immutability...read more