Class EntityIdAttribute

Namespace: AdCodicem.ValueObjects.Identifiers
Assembly: AdCodicem.ValueObjects.Identifiers.dll

Marks a readonly partial struct as a public entity identifier and drives code generation for it.

[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Struct, AllowMultiple = false, Inherited = false)]
public sealed class EntityIdAttribute : Attribute

Inheritance

object ← Attribute ← EntityIdAttribute

Inherited Members

Attribute.Equals(object?), Attribute.GetCustomAttribute(Assembly, Type), Attribute.GetCustomAttribute(Assembly, Type, bool), Attribute.GetCustomAttribute(MemberInfo, Type), Attribute.GetCustomAttribute(MemberInfo, Type, bool), Attribute.GetCustomAttribute(Module, Type), Attribute.GetCustomAttribute(Module, Type, bool), Attribute.GetCustomAttribute(ParameterInfo, Type), Attribute.GetCustomAttribute(ParameterInfo, Type, bool), Attribute.GetCustomAttributes(Assembly), Attribute.GetCustomAttributes(Assembly, bool), Attribute.GetCustomAttributes(Assembly, Type), Attribute.GetCustomAttributes(Assembly, Type, bool), Attribute.GetCustomAttributes(MemberInfo), Attribute.GetCustomAttributes(MemberInfo, bool), Attribute.GetCustomAttributes(MemberInfo, Type), Attribute.GetCustomAttributes(MemberInfo, Type, bool), Attribute.GetCustomAttributes(Module), Attribute.GetCustomAttributes(Module, bool), Attribute.GetCustomAttributes(Module, Type), Attribute.GetCustomAttributes(Module, Type, bool), Attribute.GetCustomAttributes(ParameterInfo), Attribute.GetCustomAttributes(ParameterInfo, bool), Attribute.GetCustomAttributes(ParameterInfo, Type), Attribute.GetCustomAttributes(ParameterInfo, Type, bool), Attribute.GetHashCode(), Attribute.IsDefaultAttribute(), Attribute.IsDefined(Assembly, Type), Attribute.IsDefined(Assembly, Type, bool), Attribute.IsDefined(MemberInfo, Type), Attribute.IsDefined(MemberInfo, Type, bool), Attribute.IsDefined(Module, Type), Attribute.IsDefined(Module, Type, bool), Attribute.IsDefined(ParameterInfo, Type), Attribute.IsDefined(ParameterInfo, Type, bool), Attribute.Match(object?), Attribute.TypeId, object.Equals(object?), object.Equals(object?, object?), object.GetHashCode(), object.GetType(), object.ReferenceEquals(object?, object?), object.ToString()

Examples

[EntityId("acc")]
public readonly partial struct AccountId;

Remarks

Everything [ValueObject<string>] generates is generated here too — construction, parsing, formatting, equality, ordering, the JSON converter, the TypeConverter and the registry entry — plus New(), Prefix and Granularity. The length constraints and the OpenAPI pattern are derived from the profile and flow into the database column and the schema exactly as a hand-declared rule would: the rule is still stated once.

This attribute lives in the package that carries its runtime rather than in the contracts package. Were it shipped with the core package alone, a consumer could annotate a type and receive a compile error inside generated code they cannot edit; here, without the package the attribute simply does not exist.

Constructors

EntityIdAttribute(string)

Initializes the annotation with the prefix identifiers of this type carry.

public EntityIdAttribute(string prefix)

Parameters

prefix string

One or more lowercase segments separated by _, each opening on a letter — acc, cus, sk_live. Reported by VO0015 when malformed and by VO0016 when another type in the compilation already claims it.

Properties

AllowDefault

Gets or sets a value indicating whether the analyzer tolerates default and parameterless construction.

public bool AllowDefault { get; set; }

Property Value

bool

Remarks

Those expressions produce an identifier that never went through validation: its Value is empty and its IsDefault is true. They are reported as errors by the analyzers shipped with AdCodicem.ValueObjects unless this is set, exactly as for . An identifier that may be missing is a nullable one, so this is for the rare type whose default state is meaningful to the code holding it.

Description

Gets or sets the description surfaced in the OpenAPI schema.

public string? Description { get; set; }

Property Value

string?

Remarks

Defaults to the XML documentation summary of the declaring type when it has one.

Example

Gets or sets an example value surfaced in the OpenAPI schema.

public string? Example { get; set; }

Property Value

string?

Remarks

Defaults to an identifier of the right shape, built at compile time from the profile.

Granularity

Gets or sets the width of the time bucket heading the body. Defaults to .

public IdGranularity Granularity { get; set; }

Property Value

IdGranularity

Remarks

Pick it from the insert rate of the table: a bucket holding roughly 10⁴–10⁵ rows keeps the hot part of the index cached. It leaks the creation time at this granularity and nothing finer, and never affects how guessable an identifier is — the random part keeps its 80 bits either way.

Prefix

Gets the prefix identifiers of this type carry, without its trailing separator.

public string Prefix { get; }

Property Value

string

Remarks

The prefix is what makes a mixed-up identifier fail at the boundary rather than in a repository: cus_… cannot be parsed as an AccountId. It is stored in the database for the same reason, so that even a query the application never sees cannot join two tables on each other's keys.