What is that?

This is experimental architecture framework for business applications made on .NET platform.

Reinforced.Tecture is available on NuGet along with its dependent packages.

PM> Install-Package Reinforced.Tecture
PM> Install-Package Reinforced.Tecture.Aspects.Orm
PM> Install-Package Reinforced.Tecture.Aspects.DirectSql
PM> Install-Package Reinforced.Tecture.Runtimes.EfCore
PM> Install-Package Reinforced.Tecture.Testing

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What are benefits?

Tecture gives you benefits depending on your role in the team. So in case if you are...

• System Architect: easy and explicit type-safe integration of your .NET application with external systems (databases, queues, etc) by the mechanism of channels. More formal control over the codebase from single place by aspects. Shorter IoC configuration;
• System Analyst: self-explanatory business logic with informational annotations;
• DevOps: easier way to go .NET Core;
• QA: automatically generated validation for honest, meaningful infrastructure-free data-driven regression tests with automated test data capture;
• Regular Software Engineer: clean and safe way to implement features without necessarity to write mocks, stubs and fakes. No more redundant interfaces, no more repository pattern;
• Functional programming maniac: giant IO monad on commands, queries made with pure functions;
• Team Lead: cheap way to get honest 100% code coverage with tests;
• Product Owner: faster feature delivery because of less code, easier feature logic discussions because of self-explanatory logic traces.

Below are several pieces of code that uses Tecture:

Abstractions of external systems

Define channels and use aspects:

/// <summary>
/// Hi, I'm database communication channel
/// </summary>
public interface Db :
        CommandQueryChannel<
	   Reinforced.Tecture.Aspects.Orm.Command, 
	   Reinforced.Tecture.Aspects.Orm.Query
	  >
    { }

Organize your business logic

Create services for business logic and produce commands

/// <summary>
/// I'm orders service. And these are my type parameters (tooling). 
///	                  By using them I say that I can update orders and add order lines
/// </summary>                       |                               |
public class Orders : TectureService< Updates<Order>, Adds<OrderLine> >
{
	private Orders() { }

	/// <summary>
	/// And I'm business logic method
	/// </summary>
	/// <param name="orderId">I consume order id</param>
	/// <param name="poductId">and product id</param>
	/// <param name="quantity">and also product quantity</param>
	public void CreateLine(int orderId, int poductId, int quantity)
	{
		// I perform queries to the database
		var order = From<Db>.Get<Order>().ById(orderId);
		
		// My aspect allows me to add order lines
		To<Db>().Add(new OrderLine
				{
						OrderId = orderId,
						ProductId = productId,
						Quantity = quantity
				}
		);

		// And only update orders
		To<Db>.Update(order)
		      .Set(x=>x.TotalQuantity, order.TotalQuantity + quantity);

		// Also I can invoke other services
		Let<Products>().AttachToOrder(order);
	}
}

Manage read operations

Define queries for your channels

///<summary>
/// I'm entity interface...
///</summary>
public interface IEntity { int Id { get; } }

public static class Extensions
{
	///<summary>
	/// ...and you don't need repositories anymore to get me by Id
	///</summary>
	public static T ById<T>(this IQueryFor<T> q, int id) where T : IEntity
	{
		return q.All.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Id == id);
	}
	
	///<summary>
	/// Even if you have SQL
	///</summary>
	public static IEnumerable<Order> GetRecentOrders(this Read<Db> db)
	{
		return db.SqlQuery<Order>(o => 
			$"SELECT * FROM {o} WHERE DATEDIFF(day, {o.UpdatedAt}, GETDATE()) < 30"
		).As<Order>();
	}
}

// ... 
var o = From<Db>().GetRecentOrders();
// ...

Connect Tecture to your application

Tecture can be easily registered in any IoC container and used from application

public class OrdersController : ApiController
{
	// You can inject
	private readonly ITecture _tecture;

	public OrdersController(ITecture tecture)
	{
		_tecture = tecture;
	}

	public ActionResult PerformActionWithOrder(int id)
	{
		// and use it  
		_tecture.Let<Orders>().PerformAction(id);
		_tecture.Save();

		return Ok();
	}
}

Get explanation of your business logic

Trace your business logic and get clear explanation what exactly it does with external systems:

tecture.BeginTrace();

var a = tecture.Let<Orders>().CreateOne("new order");
ctx.Save();

var trace = tecture.EndTrace();
Output.Write(trace.Explain());

/**
 * 1. [ ->] 	Check existing order presence: 'False' obtained
 * 2. [ADD] 	Adding new order to the database
 * 3. [<- ] 	<SAVE>
 * 4. [SQL] 	Re-calculating denormalized items count
 * 5. [<- ] 	<SAVE>
 * 6. [ ! ] 	<END>
 */

Create unit tests without pain

Extract test data from the trace and dump it into C# code. Convert tract into validation code. Put them together to get data-driven infrastructure-free unit test

[Fact]
public void Order_Creation_Works_As_Expected()
{
	using var c = Case<Order_Creation_Works_As_Expected_TestData>(out ITecture ctx);

	var a = ctx.Let<Orders>().CreateOne("test order");
	ctx.Save();
	
	c.Validate<Order_Creation_Works_As_Expected_Validation>();
}