hey all, How do you name your DTOs? For example I have a `entity` called `Alert` and for CRUD opera...

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[thiagoretondar]

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?

[Jukka Siivonen]

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...

[tddmonkey]

I do the same, but use AlertView instead of AlertDto

[Ian White]

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!