ServiceStack - Service consuming others services

Question

I've a question about how iI should consume services in ServiceStack from others services.

I've response DTOs for all my requests, witch implements IReturn interface. With a client like JsonServiceClient, when I make the requests, it returns the object response with the type implemented in IReturn, great!

Now that I'm re-factoring a project writing plugins for the services to use in future projects, when I inject a service in another service and make a request, it returns the object type, so I have to cast it to HttpResult, then cast the object response to the DTO type.

In most of my service method signatures, I've object as return type and then I return an HttpResult with the response. For example:

public object Get(Request request)
{
    return new HttpResult(responseObj);

}

Do I have any alternative, besides consume the services from a client?

I've a service and DTOs just for views, which consume others services from plugins. That's why I need to get the response DTO properly (the services for views act like controllers).

Answer 1

I am afraid have not understood your question and I am out of subject,

but I would use the same response object, changing only the request.

in Service Model

                public class TestRequest : IReturn<TestResponse>
                {
                 public int Id { get; set; }
                 public string name { get; set; }    
                }
                public class LowLevelRequest : IReturn<TestResponse>
                {
                 public int Id { get; set; }
                 public string name { get; set; } 
                 public string permissions { get; set; }      
                }

                public class TestResponse
                {
                  public bool success { get; set; }
                  public string message { get; set; }
                }

in Routing table

                    Routes
                      .Add<TestRequest>("/TestAPI/{Id}", "POST,GET, OPTIONS")
                      .Add<LowLevelRequest>("/InternalAPI/{Id}", "POST,GET, OPTIONS");

in Services

                  public TestResponse Post(TestRequest request)
                  {      JsonServiceClient client=new JsonServiceClient();
                         LowLevelRequest  lowrequest=new LowLevelRequest() { Id=request.Id, name=request.name, permissions="RW"  }                                                           
                        return  client.Post<TestResponse>(lowrequest);
                   }

                  public TestResponse Post( LowLevelRequest request)
                  {      ....
                         return new TestResponse() { success=true, message="done" };
                  }