[解疑] Entity, DTO and Model 区别

Entity

Entities are bunch of properties gathered to represent a single entity with a specific ID (e.g., Teacher, Student, Employee, etc.). In other words, DTOs are a bunch of meaningless properties gathered to be sent to the client and a DTO doesn’t necessarily have relationship to the other DTOs, while an Entity includes properties of a specific object with meaningful relation to the other entities. In a relational database paradigm, we can look at DTOs as views’ row while Entities are tables’ row with the primary key.

Model

Model is a combination of these two. A model can contain several related entities plus extra data to handle real-world application/UI problems. Consider a Model named CustomerOrdersModel that contains Customer Entity, List Entities, and an extra Boolean flag PayWithCredit specifying whether user is going to pay with debit-card or credit-card.

DTO

customer shipping request

example of a DTO: Consider that a shopping website is going to send its shipping requests to a shipping company by a web-service. Its DTO would be something like this: CustomerFullName, ShippingFee, ShippingAddress. In this example CustomerFullName is combination of properties FirstName + LastName for the Customer entity, and ShippingFee is the result of several processes of destination, tax, etc over some other entities

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