Introduce Boundary DTO

Kind: technique

Layer: Contracts Core

Record: lexicon:introduce-boundary-dto

Canonical: Lexicon

A technique for carrying data across a boundary in a transfer object, so internal models stay inside.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Standard Error Contract and before Coarse-Grained Endpoint.

Category

• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility

Refactors

• Boundary Leakage
• Data Clumps
• Anti-Corruption Layer
• Explicit Contracts
• Data Contract
• Schema Validation
• Type Safety

Linked from

• Anti-patterns
• Domain Architecture
• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility
• Schema / Canonical Data / Semantics