使用Nhibernate使用相同的存储库方法返回不同的Dto

Question

I have a Web API that request a GET method that can return based in the same parameters different results (Dtos) example:

GET - http://localhost/books/searchAll?Detailed=true `
Returns DTO 1 ["Id":1,"Date": 01/01/2014]

GET - http://localhost/books/searchAll?Detailed=false `
Returns DTO 2 ["Id":1]

What is the best approach to deal with this situation :

Should I create a http response with one Dto that includes two different list of results :

Public Class ResultList
{
   Public List<Dto> DtoList1{get;set;}
   Public List<Dto2> DtoList2{get;set;}
}

Or with just one dto list that return a dynamic list

Public Class ResultList
{
  Public List<dynamic> DtoList{get;set;}
}

Or other solution ?

Regards

Answer 1

If you are returning two different resources (or classes or types) I would definitely go for having two different methods but also they would serve two different URLs, let's say for eg. Search and searchDetail.

If you re returning the same resource but one time full and the other partially then I would have one method, use the detail parameter you suggested but I would return the same dto class sometimes with all it's attributes wit values and others only with its minimum attributes with value. After all you are returning a json object which can have dynamic attributes without any problem.

That's what I think.