I'm starting to implement a service layer to my MVC project to thin down some bloated controllers (it also has repository / unitofwork pattern).
My question is if you have a complicated view model for a page with lots of child objects etc, and quite a lot of logic going on behind the scenes (to give you an idea the controller the original developer wrote had almost 4000 lines of code!!) is it OK to have multiple services going off doing their thing? or should I just have one big ReportService which does everything?
My controller is starting to look like this? and if I carry on I could end up having quite a lot of different services being called to build up the view model.
Does this look OK or is it starting to go in the wrong direction?
public ViewResult Index(int? reportId)
{
// get the base report object
var reportService = new ReportService();
var report = reportService.GetByReportId(reportId);
var model = Mapper.Map<Report, ReportViewModel>(report);
// get the current active user
var userService = new UserService();
var user = userService.GetCurrentUser();
model.User = Mapper.Map<User, ReportViewModel.UserViewModel>(user);
// get the first unread message
var messageService = new MessageService();
var message = messageService.GetFirstUnread(user.Id);
model.Message = Mapper.Map<Message, ReportViewModel.MessageViewModel>(message);
// get the category navigation
var categoryService = new CategoryService();
var categoryNavigation = categoryService.GetCategoryNavigation(report.Id);
model.CategoryNavigation = Mapper.Map<IEnumerable<Category>, IEnumerable<ReportViewModel.CategoryNavigationViewModel>>(categoryNavigation);
return View(model);
}