When to Use Which Mapping Strategy?
Explore when to use different mapping strategies in hexagonal software architecture to balance code decoupling and evolution. Understand the importance of flexible guidelines for mapping between web, application, and persistence layers, adapting approaches as software requirements change for better maintainability and clarity.
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This is the million-dollar question.
The answer is the usual, dissatisfying, “it depends”.
No hard-and-fast rule
Since each mapping strategy has different advantages and disadvantages, we should resist the urge to define a single strategy as a hard-and-fast global rule for the whole codebase. This goes against our instincts, as it feels untidy to mix patterns within the ...