api/src/Controllers/AuthController.cs

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ public class AuthController : ControllerBase {
 
     [HttpPost("register")]
     public async Task<ActionResult> Register(RegisterDto dto) {
-        var user = new User {
+        User user = new User {
             UserName = dto.UserName,
             Email = dto.Email,
             CreatedAt = DateTime.UtcNow // yeah why not utc

api/src/Controllers/UsersController.cs

@@ -32,12 +32,7 @@ public class UsersController : ControllerBase {
         foreach(User user in rawArray) {
             // TODO: can you operator overload a cast? if so cast<UserDto>(UserDto) would go hard
             // if not then just a new custom cast function that returns a dto type will do
-            UserDto newDto = new UserDto{
+            UserDto newDto = new UserDto(user);
-                CreatedAt = user.CreatedAt,
-                Email = user.Email,
-                Id = user.Id,
-                UserName = user.UserName
-            };
             dtoArray.Add(newDto);
         }
 
@@ -52,12 +47,7 @@ public class UsersController : ControllerBase {
 
         if (user == null) return NotFound();
 
-        UserDto newDto = new UserDto{
+        UserDto newDto = new UserDto(user);
-            CreatedAt = user.CreatedAt,
-            Email = user.Email,
-            Id = user.Id,
-            UserName = user.UserName
-        };
 
         return Ok(newDto);
     }

api/src/Models/User.cs

@@ -55,9 +55,17 @@ public class LoginDto {
 public class UserDto {
 
     public DateTime CreatedAt { get; set; } = DateTime.UtcNow; // gets compressed to a string'
-    public List<string> permissions { get; set; } = [];
+    public List<string>? Permissions { get; set; } = [];
     public string? Email { get; set; } = "";
     public string Id { get; set; } = "";
     public string? UserName { get; set; } = "";
 
+    public UserDto(User user) {
+        CreatedAt = user.CreatedAt;
+        Email = user.Email;
+        Id = user.Id;
+        UserName = user.UserName;
+        Permissions = user.Permissions;
+    }
+
 };