Searching for a Child across Aggregate Roots

Question

The repository pattern suggest that you can only pull aggregate roots. But how would you retrieve a single child using only it\'s uniqiue identity(Child.ID) if you do not kn

Answer 1

Entity navigation is not a purpose of a domain model.
An Aggregate Root is a composition of Entities and Values that expose business operations.
As a side effect, you can still perform some simple query or navigation through your AR, but, for complex querying, creating and using a Query Model is more efficient.
I'm talking about CQRS.

Hope this can help you.