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James Hulse
James Hulse

Reputation: 1581

With AutoMapper can the source be fully mapped to a property on the destination?

I am trying to set up an AutoMapper profile and am stuck trying to map from an entity into this view model:

public class CompositeViewModel
{
    public ContactViewModel Contact;
    public CompanyViewModel Company;
}

My current profile contains mappings from Contact -> ContactViewModel and Company -> CompanyViewModel which both work perfectly. But what I want to do is map a single Contact into this composite view model. The Contact class has an instance of Company as a property as in: contact.Company.

When I do:

var viewModel = Mapper.Map<Contact, CompositeViewModel>(contact);

It properly fills in CompositeViewModel.Company with the details in contact.Company but I would like all of the entities properties copied into CompositeViewModel.Contact.

The only solution I can see at the moment is removing the ContactViewModel.Contact property and flattening it out with all of the Contact properties that I need. But this seems like it should be unnecesasry.

If I haven't been clear enough let me know, and I will try and elaborate. Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 116

Answers (1)

Chandermani
Chandermani

Reputation: 42669

Simpler would be to do something like

var viewModel=new viewModel
viewModel.Contact=Mapper.Map<Contact,ContactViewModel>(contact)
viewModel.Company=Mapper.Map<Company,CompanyViewModel>(contact.Company)

Read automapper documentation to see how customization of mapping works, in case you are not satisfied with the above approach.

Upvotes: 1

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