True. In this case, I guess I'd rather lean towards the side of "best
practice". It sounds like in your estimation (and I see there are tons
of discussions about this after doing a quick search) that would be to
keep this separated into another type of wrapper object and keep my
Entities pure. That sounds reasonable.
I don't come from a Hibernate background, but is this (using separate
DTOs) the common practice to handle the scenario where your view differs
from your entity model?
Thanks,
Tom
Patrick Linskey wrote:
You could do that, but personally, I tend to be wary of putting computed
data into the entity types themselves. You're in the grey area in the
question of when to use your domain model as a DTO graph vs. creating a
separate set of DTOs.
-Patrick
