Trying to get a query to work, but honestly not sure how (or if it's even possible) to go about it as everything I have tried hasn't worked.
Querying a total of 6 tables: Person, PersonVote, PersonCategory, Category, City, and FirstAdminDivision.
PersonVote is a user review table for people and contains a column called Vote that is a decimal accepting a value from 1-5 (5 being "best"). FirstAdminDivision would be synonymous with US states, like California. Person table has a column called CityId which is the foreign key to City. The other tables I believe are mostly self-explanatory so I won't comment unless needed.
My goal is create a query that returns a list of the "most popular" people which would be based on the average of all votes on the PersonVote table for a particular person. For instance, if a person has 3 votes and all 3 votes are "5" then they would be first in the list...don't really care about secondary ordering at this point...eg...like most votes in a tie would "win".
I have this working without AutoMapper, but I love AM's ability to do projection using the ProjectTo extension method as the code is very clean and readable and would prefer to use that approach if possible but haven't had any luck getting it to work.
Here is what I have that does work....so basically, I am trying to see if this is possible with ProjectTo instead of LINQ's Select method.
List<PersonModel> people = db.People
.GroupBy(x => x.PersonId)
.Select(x => new PersonModel
{
PersonId = x.FirstOrDefault().PersonId,
Name = x.FirstOrDefault().Name,
LocationDisplay = x.FirstOrDefault().City.Name + ", " + x.FirstOrDefault().City.FirstAdminDivision.Name,
AverageVote = x.FirstOrDefault().PersonVotes.Average(y => y.Vote),
Categories = x.FirstOrDefault().PersonCategories.Select(y => new CategoryModel
{
CategoryId = y.CategoryId,
Name = y.Category.Name
}).ToList()
})
.OrderByDescending(x => x.AverageVote)
.ToList();