I'm trying to map from one object to another that has a public readonly Guid Id, which I want to ignore. I have tried like this:
Mapper.CreateMap<SearchQuery, GetPersonsQuery>()
.ForMember(dto => dto.Id, opt => opt.Ignore());
This seems to fail because Id is readonly:
AutoMapperTests.IsValidConfiguration threw exception:
System.ArgumentException: Expression must be writeable
Is there any way around this?
I don't think ReadOnly fields are supported by AutoMapper. Only way I could get it to work was to wrap the readonly field with a property with only a getter:
class Program
{
static void Main()
{
Mapper.CreateMap<SearchQuery, GetPersonsQuery>();
var source = new SearchQuery {Id = Guid.NewGuid(), Text = Guid.NewGuid().ToString() };
Console.WriteLine("Src: id = {0} text = {1}", source.Id, source.Text);
var target = Mapper.Map<SearchQuery, GetPersonsQuery>(source);
Console.WriteLine("Tgt: id = {0} text = {1}", target.Id, target.Text);
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
internal class GetPersonsQuery
{
private readonly Guid _id = new Guid("11111111-97b9-4db4-920d-2c41da24eb71");
public Guid Id { get { return _id; } }
public string Text { get; set; }
}
internal class SearchQuery
{
public Guid Id { get; set; }
public string Text { get; set; }
}