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  • Umbraco Commerce Documentation
  • Release Notes
  • Commerce Products
    • Commerce Packages
    • Commerce Payment Providers
    • Commerce Shipping Providers
  • Installation
    • Installing Umbraco Commerce
    • Licensing
  • Upgrading
    • Upgrading Umbraco Commerce
    • Version Specific Upgrade Notes
    • Migrate from Vendr to Umbraco Commerce
      • Migrate Umbraco Commerce Checkout
      • Migrate custom Payment Providers
  • Getting Started
    • Introduction
    • Umbraco Configuration
    • User Interface
  • How-To Guides
    • Overview
    • Configure SQLite support
    • Limit Order Line Quantity
    • Use an Alternative Database for Umbraco Commerce Tables
  • Key Concepts
    • Get to know the main features
    • Base Currency
    • Bulk Actions
    • Calculators
    • Dependency Injection
    • Discount Rules / Rewards
    • Events
    • Fluent API
    • Order Calculation State
    • Payment Forms
    • Payment Providers
    • Pipelines
    • Price/Amount Adjustments
    • Price Freezing
    • Product Adapters
    • Product Bundles
    • Product Variants
      • Complex Variants
    • Properties
    • ReadOnly and Writable Entities
    • Search Specifications
    • Settings Objects
    • Tax Sources
    • UI Config Files
    • Umbraco Properties
    • Unit of Work
    • Umbraco Commerce Builder
  • Tutorials
    • Overview
  • Reference
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  1. Key Concepts

Fluent API

Faster development thanks to the Fluent API of Umbraco Commerce.

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An added side effect of having is that all of an entity's write operations are now performed via methods. This is instead of property setters, enabling to us convert Umbraco Commerce's write API in a fluent API.

Writing fluently

You could perform a write operation as follows:

_uowProvider.Execute(uow =>
{
    // Fetch the currency
    var currency = _currencyService.GetCurrency(currencyId);

    // Convert the currency into it's Writable form
    var writableCurrency = currency.AsWritable(uow);

    // Perform the write operation
    writableCurrency.SetName("New Name");

    // Persist the changes to the database
    _currencyService.SaveCurrency(currency);

    // Close the transaction
    uow.Complete();
});

This could be simplified further by defining these actions fluently, chaining all of the entity methods into a succinct command sequence as follows:

_uowProvider.Execute(uow =>
{
    var currency = _currencyService.GetCurrency(currencyId)
        .AsWritable(uow)
        .SetName("New Name");

    _currencyService.SaveCurrency(currency);

    uow.Complete();
});

We know not everyone likes to write their code fluently and so the Umbraco Commerce Fluent API is an optional feature. Both code examples above are valid coding styles that will both work as well as each other. The Fluent API is an opt-in layer of syntax sugar that developers can use depending on their preferred style of coding.

ReadOnly and Writable entities