Lottery
An ASP.NET Core 6 Web API that simulates a wine lottery.
Getting Started
The application requires .NET 6.0 SDK to be installed. Then it should be possible to run the application with the following command:
dotnet run --project Lottery.WebMissing Features
Since this is a very quickly put together prototype of a wine lottery, there are numerous features that are missing. Some of the most important ones are described below.
Database
The application uses two in-memory repositories for storing and retrieving data. This should of course be replaced with a proper database so state is preserved across application restarts.
When adding a database, it would be wise to add another project that separates the database access logic from the web API project.
Authentication
The application does not have any authentication. This should be added to ensure that only authorized users can access the application.
Purchasing
The application has no way of actually purchasing tickets. Although the current
method is named PurchaseTicket(), it does not actually invoke any purchasing
logic. A better name to describe the current implementation would be
ReserveTicket(), but PurchaseTicket() is used to match the future
implementation of the method.
Drawing
The application has no way of actually drawing tickets for the lottery, which makes it rather useless.
When adding the drawing logic, it would be wise to add a Core project to hold all of the core domain logic of the application. The current classes in the Web project would then serve as DTO classes only used by the API, with the Core project containing the actual domain logic.
User Interface
There is currently no proper user interface for the application. A Swagger UI is provided for testing the API, but this is only for development and not for actual use of the application.
Tests
The application does not have any tests. This should naturally be added to ensure that the application works as expected and continues to do so with future changes.