Re:A todo list for new ASP.NET Core projects
by biarity on Thursday February 08, 2018 @04:08AM
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I agree! I find this especially useful when I have to set things like a UserId associated with an entity or with more complex entities where some data comes from injected services. I know you can create a service that handles creating the entity as an abstraction, but that gets repetitive and adds complexity in large projects. I might actually add this my article :)!
It's one of those magic features that ultimately hides too much.
Far too much can go wrong and the error get silently swallowed, plus having a parameterless constructor is rare for complex objects. So you end up with a model missing properties you need filled in if there's a validation error, extra work to make sure it's properly populated that should have happened in the constructor, which means code duplication.