hey all, How do you name your DTOs? For example I have a

entity

called

Alert

and for CRUD operations I have a DTO to create, so I’m naming

AlertCreationDTO

but to update I can’t use

AlertCreationDTO

because some fields can’t be updated. So how you organize/name those DTOs?

We (try to) use DTO only for return values, e.g AlertDto. To manipulate use verb, create or update AlertCreate and AlertUpdate. Very mildly inspired by CQRS pattern...

I do the same, but use

AlertView

instead of

AlertDto

i have a little annotation processor i wrote called

@PartialDataObjects

which automatically generates partial views for dtos with various fields shown/hidden from data classes. the convention i adopted for it is

TypeModel

, e.g.

CreateAlert

,

UpdateAlert

,

PartialAlert

, etc. i guess it could go the other way around too to organize alphabetically better!