Relation between ApplicationUser model and other models

[TabrizHabiyev]

ApplicationUser model is located in Infrastructure layer. Other models are in the Domain layer.We know that the Domain layer has no access to the Infrastructure layer.
Question: What should we do if we need a relation between a model in the domain layer and ApplicationUser?

[DJJones66]

I've been going through this myself looking at how to gain the same kind of functionality. Just seems odd to me that this has been overlooked.

[prince272]

Sometimes, we also need to overlook things as well to make it work.

[neozhu]

I have made it a navigation property to replated application user in my project using this clean architecture.
please refer to
https://github.com/neozhu/CleanArchitectureWithBlazorServer/blob/main/src/Domain/Common/BaseAuditableEntity.cs

[prince272]

Oh okay that's cool

[TabrizHabiyev]

I have made it a navigation property to replated application user in my project using this clean architecture. please refer to https://github.com/neozhu/CleanArchitectureWithBlazorServer/blob/main/src/Domain/Common/BaseAuditableEntity.cs

Yes, this is nice, but you moved the AppliationUser from the Infrastructure layer to the Domain Layer.Honestly, like you, I did it this way as a last resort. I was just wondering why @jasontaylordev kept ApplicationUser in the Infrastructure layer

[hsandhar]

My take on this.

• Application is using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity provider for auth and to keep things simple, especially knowing there is no explicit relationship between a TodoItem/TodoItemList and the user and no other domain specific props for that user, there was no need to add/declare anything in the Domain project.
• If there was some type of relationship in in the domain between lists/todos and some domain specific user props then yes, domain would need to know more about this user (or some type of a navigational prop scenario), but in the context of this template/demo, the only thing tying these auditable entities back to the current user is CreatedBy & ModifiedBy which are just string?.
• More or less, there is nothing going on in the domain/app projects where a TodoItem/List need to know anything about the current user.