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    copied!<p>I'm designing N-tier application and I came across a difficulty which you might have a solution to. Presentation layer is MVC.</p> <p>My ORM is carried out using LinqToSQL - it's a seperate project which serves repositories.</p> <p>Each reporsitory has an interface and at least 1 concrete implementation.</p> <p>Repositories have the following methods: <code>FindAll(), Save(T entity), Delete(int id)</code></p> <p><code>FindAll()</code> returns IQueryable of some type, which means that it returns queries to which I can apply filters.</p> <p>ORM mapping has been carried out using Database First methodology, where tables were created first and then classes were generated by SQL Metal.</p> <p>I have added a Pipeline layer which works with repositories. It applies further filters to queries. E.g. <code>OrderRepository.FindAll().Where(o =&gt; o.CustomerId == 10)</code> </p> <p>Pipeline also returns IQueryable of some type, which means that I can pass it further up the layer and do more stuff with it.</p> <p>At this point I would like to move to the BusinessLogic layer, but I don't want to work with entity models any longer, I want to convert entity model to a domain model. This means that I can add validation to a model and use that model in the presentation layer. Model can't be defined in MVC project as it would be dependant on the presentation layer, so that's a no.</p> <p>I'm fairly certain that business logic (behaviour) and model must be stored seperate from pipeline, data and presentation layer. The question is where?</p> <p>For example, a pipeline has three methods: 1. FindByCustomerId 2. FindByOrderId 3. FindBySomethingElse</p> <p>All these methods return IQueryable of Order. I need to convert this to a domain model, but I don't want to do it per each method as it won't be mainteinable. </p> <p>I feel that this model is fairly robust and scalable. I just don't see what is the best place for mapping from entities to domain model and vise versa.</p> <p>Thank you</p>
 

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