Is there a clean separation of my layers with this attempt at Domain Driven Design in XAML and C#
- by Buddy James
I'm working on an application. I'm using a mixture of TDD and DDD. I'm working hard to separate the layers of my application and that is where my question comes in.
My solution is laid out as follows
Solution
MyApp.Domain (WinRT class library)
Entity (Folder)
Interfaces(Folder)
IPost.cs (Interface)
BlogPosts.cs(Implementation of IPost)
Service (Folder)
Interfaces(Folder)
IDataService.cs (Interface)
BlogDataService.cs (Implementation of IDataService)
MyApp.Presentation(Windows 8 XAML + C# application)
ViewModels(Folder)
BlogViewModel.cs
App.xaml
MainPage.xaml (Contains a property of BlogViewModel
MyApp.Tests (WinRT Unit testing project used for my TDD)
So I'm planning to use my ViewModel with the XAML UI
I'm writing a test and define my interfaces in my system and I have the following code thus far.
[TestMethod]
public void Get_Zero_Blog_Posts_From_Presentation_Layer_Returns_Empty_Collection()
{
IBlogViewModel viewModel = _container.Resolve<IBlogViewModel>();
viewModel.LoadBlogPosts(0);
Assert.AreEqual(0, viewModel.BlogPosts.Count, "There should be 0 blog posts.");
}
viewModel.BlogPosts is an ObservableCollection<IPost>
Now.. my first thought is that I'd like the LoadBlogPosts method on the ViewModel to call a static method on the BlogPost entity.
My problem is I feel like I need to inject the IDataService into the Entity object so that it promotes loose coupling. Here are the two options that I'm struggling with:
Not use a static method and use a member method on the BlogPost entity. Have the BlogPost take an IDataService in the constructor and use dependency injection to resolve the BlogPost instance and the IDataService implementation.
Don't use the entity to call the IDataService. Put the IDataService in the constructor of the ViewModel and use my container to resolve the IDataService when the viewmodel is instantiated.
So with option one the layers will look like this
ViewModel(Presentation layer) - Entity (Domain layer) - IDataService (Service Layer)
or
ViewModel(Presentation layer) - IDataService (Service Layer)
