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More about code, examples and contributing you can find on SourceMapper GitHub.
Source code and more, of course, on SourceConfig GitHub.
There are two approaches when implemening Web API: code first, that most of developers prefer: to create Web API controllers, DTO’s, to add Swagger UI and that’s all!; and API first, when API needs to be designed or discussed and only after that we start to implement it. In distributed systems with a various technologies and consumers of our API it is good to have language agnostic tools to agree and share API between the consumers. Open API Specification has been created for that:
StoreControllerBase class is generated as (underhood it uses NSwag CSharpControllerGenerator to generate abstract controllers):
During my work on different cloud-native applications with a various tech stacks I’ve paid attention to Java’s widely used mapping library MapStruct, where developers define mappings using Java annotations (in C# attributes). The SourceMapper package uses Source Generators and generates objects mappings based on C# attributes actually during coding. Of course, there is widely used .NET Mapper library AutoMapper, but the main difference between tham, that developer can see (and control) mappings in generated code. The package can be installed using Nuget Package Manager:
Some configuration properties also added to the package: you can define the namespace of your base controllers, or you can generate only DTO’s in a case when you are the consumer of some REST API. Source code and documentation can be found on SourceApi GitHub.