Northwind Starter Kit ReviewFrom start to finishing–tracing a request

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This is a review of the Northwind Starter Kit project, this review revision 94815 from Dec 18 2011.

One of the things that I repeatedly call out is the forwarding type of architecture, a simple operation that is hidden away by a large number of abstractions that serves no real purpose.

Instead of a controller, let us look at a web service, just to make things slightly different. We have the following:

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Okay, let us dig deeper:

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I really like the fact that this repository actually have have FindById method, which this service promptly ignores in favor of using the IQueryable<Customer> implementation. If you want to know how that is implemented, just look (using the EF Code First repository implementations, the others are fairly similar):

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All in all, the entire thing only serves to make things harder to understand and maintain.

Does anyone really think that this abstraction adds anything? What is the point?!

More posts in "Northwind Starter Kit Review" series:

  1. (26 Jan 2012) Conclusion
  2. (24 Jan 2012) That CQRS thing
  3. (23 Jan 2012) It is all about the services
  4. (20 Jan 2012) From start to finishing–tracing a request
  5. (18 Jan 2012) If you won’t respect the database, there will be pain
  6. (16 Jan 2012) Refactoring to an actual read model
  7. (13 Jan 2012) Data Access review thoughts
  8. (12 Jan 2012) The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge
  9. (11 Jan 2012) Data Access and the essence of needless work, Part II
  10. (10 Jan 2012) Data Access and the essence of needless work, Part I