- Objective: Development of an API in .NET 8 using the Builder Design Pattern. The boilerplate of this API was generated using Chat-GPT.
From Refactoring Guru: Design patterns are typical solutions to commonly occurring problems in software design. They are like pre-made blueprints that you can customize to solve a recurring design problem in your code.
Creational design patterns provide various object creation mechanisms, which increase flexibility and reuse of existing code.
From Refactoring Guru: Builder is a creational design pattern that lets you construct complex objects step by step. The pattern allows you to produce different types and representations of an object using the same construction code.
Pros:
- You can construct objects step-by-step, defer construction steps or run steps recursively.
- You can reuse the same construction code when building various representations of products.
- Single Responsibility Principle. You can isolate complex construction code from the business logic of the product.
Cons:
- The overall complexity of the code increases since the pattern requires creating multiple new classes.
First, a new .NET WebApi project was started through the CLI:
dotnet new webapi -n ProdutoApi
Then, a Boilerplate for this project was generated using Chat-GPT. The prompt given was: "Create a simple .NET 8 API based on the Builder Design Pattern". Chat-GPT indicated which entities, controllers and builders were needed for the project. It also indicated a few configurations needed to make sure the controllers were mapped and could run with no issues.
The project didn't compile right away, since the standard .NET Api is built in a slightly different way than what Chat-GPT generated. However, after reading some internet tutorials and doing some modifications to the Controllers, i managed to get it working.
Make sure you're in the same directory as the root of the project and run the command:
dotnet run