C#•2y ago

❔ Social media profiles hidden information?

in social media websites when i set something like my email to private or only shown for me does the api return a different DTO each time? and in that case, I will need to have 99999 DTOs depending on how many properties I have and how many combinations of information that can be hidden/shown?

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V0FBU1VM•2y ago

@shadilios Then take a look at GraphQL. You can write your query from the client and retrieve the exact amount of data you need.

V0FBU1VM•2y ago

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ACiDCA7•2y ago

since you arent giving any more concrete examples, i wont go to deep into the topic, but an api can have optional fields, meaning they dont have to be part of the payload, your dto then just sets the value to null or whatever you want to do with it. one dto is normally more than enough for such a case

khamas•2y ago

How I do it is remove certain fields from the DTO So like email address will be null client side But the model is the same

ACiDCA7•2y ago

pretty much jea

khamas•2y ago

Email address field in profile model Ye

Landan•2y ago

You could setup a pattern for your dto validation like:

Model.CouldBe(emailSource=>emailSource.tryGetValue(emailSourceKey, out var emailSourceObject) ? emailSourceObject as emailSourceDTO : default)
.CouldBe(addressSource...)
.CouldBe(infoSource...)

Model.CouldBe(emailSource=>emailSource.tryGetValue(emailSourceKey, out var emailSourceObject) ? emailSourceObject as emailSourceDTO : default)
.CouldBe(addressSource...)
.CouldBe(infoSource...)

Your parameter for the Func would be an IDictionary, or you might be able to use, as, to try casting it to your dto Make a special attribute for model validation, and voila

Model.CouldBe(emailSource=>emailSource as emailSourceDTO);

Model.CouldBe(emailSource=>emailSource as emailSourceDTO);

Model.CouldBe<emailSourceDTO>();

Model.CouldBe<emailSourceDTO>();

Model.CouldBe(typeof(emailSourceDTO));

Model.CouldBe(typeof(emailSourceDTO));

Angius•2y ago

Just use null, and you can tell ASP to remove null fields from the response

Accord•2y ago

Was this issue resolved? If so, run /close - otherwise I will mark this as stale and this post will be archived until there is new activity.

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❔ Social media profiles hidden information?