Web Api2和受保护的二传手？

Question

I've got an entity which I pull directly from the database using EF that looks like this:

public class MyEntity : EntityBase {
    public string MyProperty { get; set; }
}

where as EntityBase looks like the following

public abstract class EntityBase {
    public int Id { get; protected set; }
}

The reason the Id is protected is simple: It shouldn't be changed at any state. This works fine with EF (I assume it uses reflection to set the value?), however when I send a POST from a client with the model data via my web api, the Id is always 0 (default). Is there a way to access protected setters with Web API 2? Or do I have to map it manually from a DTO?

Answer 1

When your client tries to create a MyEntity it should know nothing about id since it's not relevant at creation state. It just knows that new entity will have MyProperty set to "some value". I prefer to work with dto and they should contain only request related information.

For mapping I'd suggest to use AutoMapper .