Facets in a Nuget library

[smolesen]

In my API I return DTOs from my service, the DTO are mapped from my domain model inside the controllers. The DTOs are placed in a Nuget package, so my clients can use it. My service has a dependency on the Nuget package with the DTOs, but the Nuget package doesn't have a dependency on the Domain model.
How would you put the facets in a Nuget package for others to use, without having a dependency on the domain model.

[Tim-Maes]

Hello @smolesen

This topic has been discussed here #143 and I'm afraid this is a limitation of Facet, since the code is generated inside the same assembly

A workaround for this, is to let Facet generate DTOs in your service project, then copy them to the nuget package project project during build:

  <!-- In your service .csproj -->
  <Target Name="CopyGeneratedDtosToContract" AfterTargets="Build">
    <ItemGroup>
      <GeneratedDtos Include="$(IntermediateOutputPath)generated\Facet\**\*Dto.g.cs" />
    </ItemGroup>
    <Copy SourceFiles="@(GeneratedDtos)"
          DestinationFolder="..\Project.Contracts\Generated\" />
  </Target>