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Mastering ABP Framework

By : Halil İbrahim Kalkan
Book Image

Mastering ABP Framework

By: Halil İbrahim Kalkan

Overview of this book

ABP Framework is a complete infrastructure for creating modern web applications by following software development best practices and conventions. With ABP's high-level framework and ecosystem, you can implement the Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) principle and focus on your business code. Written by the creator of ABP Framework, this book will help you to gain a complete understanding of the framework and modern web application development techniques. With step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, you'll understand the requirements of a modern web solution and how ABP Framework makes it enjoyable to develop your own solutions. You'll discover the common requirements of enterprise web application development and explore the infrastructure provided by ABP. Throughout the book, you’ll get to grips with software development best practices for building maintainable and modular web solutions. By the end of this book, you'll be able to create a complete web solution that is easy to develop, maintain, and test.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction
6
Part 2: Fundamentals of ABP Framework
11
Part 3: Implementing Domain–Driven Design
15
Part 4: User Interface and API Development
19
Part 5: Miscellaneous

Creating products

In this section, we will create the necessary functionality to add a new product. A product should have a category. So, we should select a category while adding a new product. We will define new application service methods to get categories and create products. In the UI section, we will use ABP's dynamic form feature to automatically generate the product creation form, based on a C# class.

Application service contracts

Let's start by adding two new methods to the IProductAppService interface:

Task CreateAsync(CreateUpdateProductDto input);
Task<ListResultDto<CategoryLookupDto>> GetCategoriesAsync();

We will use the GetCategoriesAsync method to show a drop-down list of categories on product creation. We've introduced two new DTOs, and we should define them.

CreateUpdateProductDto is used to create and update products (we will reuse it in the Editing products section). Define it in the Products folder of the ProductManagement...