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Gena Verdel
Gena Verdel

Reputation: 636

Automapper mapping properties

Suppose I have the following structure:

public class EntityDto
{
    int EntityId { get; set; }
}

public class Entity
{
    EntityId<int> EntityId { get; }
}

public class EntityId<T>
{
    T Id { get; set; }
}

What is the appropriate way for defining the mapping profile in this case? Both directions, of course. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 196

Answers (1)

Dennis
Dennis

Reputation: 37770

Assuming, that your classes look like this:

class EntityDto
{
    public int EntityId { get; set; }
}

class EntityId<T>
{
    public T Id { get; set; }
}

class Entity
{
    public EntityId<int> EntityId { get; set; }
}

mapping will look like this:

    static void CreateMapForEntityId<T>()
    {
        Mapper.CreateMap<T, EntityId<T>>()
            .ForMember(_ => _.Id, options => options.MapFrom(_ => _));
    }

    static void TestMapping(int id)
    {
        CreateMapForEntityId<int>();

        Mapper
            .CreateMap<Entity, EntityDto>()
            .ForMember(_ => _.EntityId, options => options.MapFrom(_ => _.EntityId.Id))
            .ReverseMap();

        Mapper.AssertConfigurationIsValid();

        var entity = new Entity { EntityId = new EntityId<int> { Id = id } };

        var entityDto = Mapper.Map<EntityDto>(entity);
        Debug.Assert(entityDto.EntityId == id);

        var entityClone = Mapper.Map<Entity>(entityDto);
        Debug.Assert(entityClone.EntityId.Id == id);
    }

Basically, there won't be any "auto"-mapping.

Upvotes: 1

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