I am learning Onion Architecture by Jeffrey Palermo for more than 2 weeks now. I have created a test project by following this tutorial. While studying I came across this question on SO. According to accepted answer, one person nwang
suggests that Methods like GetProductsByCategoryId should not be in Repository and one the other hand Dennis Traub
suggests that it is the responsibility of the Repository. What I am doing is :
I have a General Repository in Domain.Interface
in which I have a method Find
:
public interface IRepository<TEntity> where TEntity : class
{
IEnumerable<TEntity> Find(Expression<Func<TEntity, bool>> filter = null);
.......
.......
.......
}
Then I created a BaseRepository
in Infrastucture.Data
:
public class RepositoryBase<TEntity> : IRepository<TEntity> where TEntity : class
{
internal readonly DbSet<TEntity> dbSet;
public virtual IEnumerable<TEntity> Find(
Expression<Func<TEntity, bool>> filter = null)
{
IQueryable<TEntity> query = dbSet;
if (filter != null)
{
query = query.Where(filter);
}
return query.ToList();
}
}
And I have a concrete repository in Infrastructure.Data
public class ProductRepository : RepositoryBase<Product>, IProductRepository
{
public ProductRepository(MyDBContext context)
: base(context)
{
}
}
Now what I am doing in my Service Layer is Injecting Repository into Service and calling Repository.Find
for methods like GetProductsByCategoryId
. Like :
public class ProductService : IProductService
{
private readonly IUnitOfWork _unitOfWork;
private readonly IProductRepository _productRepository;
public ProductService(IUnitOfWork unitOfWork, IProductRepository productRepository)
{
_unitOfWork = unitOfWork;
_productRepository = productRepository;
}
public IList<Product> GetProductsByCategoryId(int CategoryId)
{
// At the moment, My code is like this:
return _productRepository.Find(e => e.CategoryId == CategoryId).ToList();
// My confusion is here. Am I doing it right or I need to take this code to
// ProductRepository and call _productRepositoy.GetProductsByCategoryId(CategoryId) here instead.
// If I do this, then Service Layer will become more of a wrapper around repository. Isn't it?
// My question is : What exactly will be the responsibility of the Service Layer in Onion Architecture?
}
}