A common misunderstanding in my workshops (well, whose fault is it then? ;)), is about the distinction between a DTO and a value object. And so I’ve been looking for a way to categorize these objects without mistake. What’s a DTO and how do you recognize it? A DTO is an object that holds primitive data (strings, booleans, floats, nulls, arrays of these things). It defines the schema of this data by explicitly declaring the names of the fields and their types. It can only guarantee that al...
