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Ronald Emergo
Ronald Emergo

Reputation: 31

Automapper ignore null values but do map empty string to null

We are using automapper. I want to map two objects of the same type. When the source member value = null, then the destination member should be used. However when the source member value is an empty string (""), I want the destination member to become null. Here is an example code:

        public class someobject
        {
            public string text { get; set; }
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void EmptyStringMap()
        {
            var cfg = new MapperConfiguration(c => c.CreateMap<someobject, someobject>()
                .AddTransform<string>(s => string.IsNullOrEmpty(s) ? null : s)
                .ForAllOtherMembers(o =>
                    o.Condition((src, dest, srcmember) => srcmember != null)));

            var map = cfg.CreateMapper();

            var desto = new someobject() { text = "not empty" };
            var srco = new someobject() { text = "" };

            var mappedo = map.Map(srco, desto);
            Assert.IsNull(mappedo.text);

        }

This however will fail. mappedo.text will be "not empty". Do you have a suggestion how to achieve all members of type string to become null when the source member is an empty string?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3210

Answers (1)

Ronald Emergo
Ronald Emergo

Reputation: 31

Changing the conditions will do the trick:

        public class someobject
        {
            public string text { get; set; }
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void EmptyStringMap()
        {
            var cfg = new MapperConfiguration(c => {
                c.CreateMap<someobject, someobject>()
                .AddTransform<string>(s => string.IsNullOrEmpty(s) ? null : s)
                .ForAllOtherMembers(o =>
                    o.Condition((src, dest, srcmember, destmember) => srcmember != null || destmember.GetType() == typeof(string)));
                });

            var map = cfg.CreateMapper();

            var desto = new someobject() { text = "not empty" };
            var srco = new someobject() { text = "" };
            //var srco = new someobject() { text = null };

            var mappedo = map.Map(srco, desto);
            Assert.IsNull(mappedo.text);

        }

Upvotes: 2

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