Thank you Diego, yes let me clarify.  When I say repository in this
example, I am referencing where my repository would have been in my
previous approach, now I wouldn't call it that.

I am just curious if anyone has tried and it didn't work out well, or
if it did, etc.  Just more curiosity, than anything else.

On Aug 29, 12:17 pm, Diego Mijelshon <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'd say if the Repository returns DetachedCriterias, it's not a repository
> at all, and the dual-role of the service layer (doing the actual retrieval
> and mapping to VM's, although that's delegated) is debatable.
> But if it works for you, it's testable enough and easy to work with, none of
> our opinions should make a difference :-)
>
>     Diego
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 14:03, rhartzog <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have started playing with something different from my normal
> > repositories where I have each method from repository return
> > DetachedCriteria that I can then execute on in a service layer.  The
> > service layer wires up the view models for screen consumption.  Very
> > simple example:
>
> > Employee Domain Object:
> >    FirstName,
> >    LastName,
> >    List<Addresses>
>
> > Employee View Model
> >    FirstName,
> >    LastName
>
> > Employee Repository:
> >    public DetachedCriteria GetAll()
>
> > Employee Service;
> >    using sess & tx
> >        var query=
> > GetAll().ExecutableCriteria(sess).Future<Employee>();
>
> >        var otherQuery = more queries here, maybe for Employee
> > addresses or departments, etc.
>
> >    Mapper.Map<List<Employee>, List<EmployeeVM>>(emps);
>
> > This is because sometimes the VM needs more than one entitiy and I can
> > use multiple detached criteria to formulate the least amount of calls
> > to the database using session in the service layer.  Am I creating
> > more of a headache?  Good? Bad? Ugly?  Any suggestions would be
> > appreciated.
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