This NuGet package contains a base entity definition along with an entity service which handles the update, delete, add etc. which automatically sets the properties on the base entity and does some basic validation. Every class is extendable, so you can fit it to your needs. The Add, Delete, Update, and Restore functions on the entity services are all virtual, so you can extend them to fit your needs if you e.g. need more base attributes set automatically.

The class EntityBase is for hard delete entities while EntitySoftDeleteBase is for entities which are only soft deleted. There are repositories for each type of entity as well with mostly the same functionality although the soft delete version has a few extra parameters and also has a restore function.

The base entity contains the following properties:

This class extends EntityBase and adds the following properties:

This is the entity service which handles the communication with the database. There is also an interface IEntityRepository, so you can use DI to inject it into your code.

This entity repository handles soft delete entities. It implements the interface IEntitySoftDeleteRepository for DI purposes.

For each method in EntityRepository where relevant, there are extra parameters for handling soft delete entities e.g. GetListAsync where you can choose whether to include deleted in the result list or not (not by default).

Along with the methods from EntityRepository, this repository implements the following extra methods along with changed behaviour on DeleteAsync including extra parameters regarding to soft delete behaviour on the other functions: