My application needs to display a table of customer data, including data about the customer and about his most recent order from a given warehouse. The customer domain object contains a GetLatestOrder(warehouseId) method.
I have a CustomerView viewmodel and want to be able to populate it with some fields from the customer object, and a few fields from the latest order object. Can I do this using Automapper?
Try this,
In Global.asax.cs
[Application_Start
], public static void AppInitialize()
protected void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Mapper.CreateMap<Order, CustomerViewModel>()
.ForMember(destination => destination.OrderId, options => options.MapFrom(source => source.Id))
.ForMember(destination => destination.OrderName, options => options.MapFrom(source => source.Name));
Mapper.CreateMap<Customer, CustomerViewModel>()
.ForMember(destination => destination.CustmerId, options => options.MapFrom(source => source.Id))
.ForMember(destination => destination.CustmerName, options => options.MapFrom(source => source.Name))
.ForMember(destination => destination.OrderId, options => options.MapFrom(source => Mapper.Map<IEnumerable<Order>, IEnumerable<CustomerViewModel>>(source.Orders).FirstOrDefault().OrderId))
.ForMember(destination => destination.OrderName, options => options.MapFrom(source => Mapper.Map<IEnumerable<Order>, IEnumerable<CustomerViewModel>>(source.Orders).FirstOrDefault().OrderName));
}
And in your code call the mapper like below,
var lstCustomers = new List<Customer>
{
new Customer { Id = 1, Name="Name", Orders = new List<Order> { new Order { Id = 1000, Name ="Some Name"}}},
};
var result = Mapper.Map<IEnumerable<Customer>, IEnumerable<CustomerViewModel>>(lstCustomers);
I am presumed that you classes looks like below,
public class Customer
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public List<Order> Orders { get; set; }
}
public class Order
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
}
public class CustomerViewModel
{
public int CustmerId { get; set; }
public string CustmerName { get; set; }
public int OrderId { get; set; }
public string OrderName { get; set; }
}
Also refer this post.
Yes, you can:
var vm = new CustomerViewModel();
Mapper.Map(customer, vm);
Mapper.Map(order, vm);
Each mapping will populate the properties it is configured to and leave the rest.
In the end, I took the easy approach, couldn't find another way:
In Application_start:
Mapper.CreateMap<Customer, CustomerView>();
Mapper.CreateMap<Order, CustomerView>();
In the controller method:
IEnumerable<Customer> customers = GetCustomers(false)
.OrderBy(c => c.Name);
IEnumerable<CustomerView> viewData = Mapper.Map<IEnumerable<Customer>, IEnumerable<CustomerView>>(customers);
foreach (Customer customer in customers)
{
CustomerView view = viewData.Where(cv => cv.CustomerId == customer.CustomerId).First();
Mapper.Map(customer.GetLatestOrder(WarehouseId), view);
}