Where we should put validation for domain model

Posted by adisembiring on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by adisembiring
Published on 2011-11-15T02:40:33Z Indexed on 2011/11/15 10:13 UTC
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I still looking best practice for domain model validation. Is that good to put the validation in constructor of domain model ? my domain model validation example as follows:

public class Order
 {
    private readonly List<OrderLine> _lineItems;

    public virtual Customer Customer { get; private set; }
    public virtual DateTime OrderDate { get; private set; }
    public virtual decimal OrderTotal { get; private set; }

    public Order (Customer customer)
    {
        if (customer == null)
            throw new  ArgumentException("Customer name must be defined");

        Customer = customer;
        OrderDate = DateTime.Now;
        _lineItems = new List<LineItem>();
    }

    public void AddOderLine //....
    public IEnumerable<OrderLine> AddOderLine { get {return _lineItems;} }
}


public class OrderLine
{
    public virtual Order Order { get; set; }
    public virtual Product Product { get; set; }
    public virtual int Quantity { get; set; }
    public virtual decimal UnitPrice { get; set; }

    public OrderLine(Order order, int quantity, Product product)
    {
        if (order == null)
            throw new  ArgumentException("Order name must be defined");
        if (quantity <= 0)
            throw new  ArgumentException("Quantity must be greater than zero");
        if (product == null)
            throw new  ArgumentException("Product name must be defined");

        Order = order;
        Quantity = quantity;
        Product = product;
    }
}

Thanks for all of your suggestion.

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