public async Task <ActionResult <VendorDto> > CreateVendorAsync(VendorForCreationDto vendorForCreationDto)
{
// TODO: Setup "REQUIRED" attributes on your entities to replace this code.
// Maybe implement some custom "Validation Attributes" just for practice.
//if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(vendorForCreationDto.Name))
//{
// var msg = "No Vendor name found in request.";
// _logger.LogError(msg);
// return UnprocessableEntity(new { status = "Error:", message = msg });
//}
var vendorEntity = _mapper.Map <Vendor>(vendorForCreationDto);
// Get the new "vendor added" that contains the vendor Id from the datastore
var vendorAdded = await _service.CreateVendorAsync(vendorEntity).ConfigureAwait(false);
// Map the new vendor to a "presentation vendor" or DTO vendor
// Yeah, yeah, I could just update the Id on the vendorDto that was passed in and return that
// but, I'd rather be consistent with the vendor that is presented to the client, always a VendorDto.
// And besides, we do all the mapping in one place, in the MAPPER.
var vendorDtoToReturn = _mapper.Map <VendorDto>(vendorAdded);
vendorDtoToReturn.Links = CreateLinksForVendor(vendorDtoToReturn);
// Return the DTO vendor
return(CreatedAtRoute(nameof(GetVendorAsync), new { id = vendorDtoToReturn.Id }, vendorDtoToReturn));
}