February 22, 2016

Partially initialized entities anti-pattern

The topic described in this article is a part of my Domain-Driven Design in Practice Pluralsight course. In this post, I’d like to talk about the partially initialized entities anti-pattern: anti-pattern that is often used in conjunction with repositories. Partially initialized entities Partially initialized entities are entities which are not fully constructed and returned as a result of some operation, usually an operation of fetching them from the database.