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Andrew Kalashnikov
Andrew Kalashnikov

Reputation: 3173

Update entity through DTO

I have got a common scenario: SL app and WCF service as data source.

I use DTOs for transferring business objects over the wire. I have an issue - Update entity. In the client form, I have a binded DTO and I send this to WCF. I want to know a nice way to update a real database entity by DTO data. In WCF, I use NHibernate for the DAL. My solution is getting the attached entity by id from the database and I copy all properties (with nested objects) from the DTO.

But I think it's not flexible or good. Can you advise me a better way?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1602

Answers (1)

willbt
willbt

Reputation: 1885

Like anything DTOs have pros & cons but when your DTOs are exactly the same as your Entities it can seem like a burden to do the property mapping manually.

Try looking at AutoMapper which should help you speed up the property mapping.

Upvotes: 1

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