Automapper missing type map configuration or unsup

Question

Entity Model

public partial class Categoies
{
    public Categoies()
    {
        this.Posts = new HashSet<Posts>();
    }

    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Description { get; set; }
    public Nullable<int> PositionId { get; set; }

    public virtual CategoryPositions CategoryPositions { get; set; }
    public virtual ICollection<Posts> Posts { get; set; }
}

View Model

public class CategoriesViewModel
{
    public int Id { get; set; }

    [Required(ErrorMessage = "{0} alanı boş bırakılmamalıdır!")]
    [Display(Name = "Kategori Adı")]
    public string Name { get; set; }

    [Display(Name = "Kategori Açıklama")]
    public string Description { get; set; }

    [Display(Name = "Kategori Pozisyon")]
    [Required(ErrorMessage="{0} alanı boş bırakılmamalıdır!")]
    public int PositionId { get; set; }
}

CreateMap

Mapper.CreateMap<CategoriesViewModel, Categoies>()
            .ForMember(c => c.CategoryPositions, option => option.Ignore())
            .ForMember(c => c.Posts, option => option.Ignore());

Map

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult _EditCategory(CategoriesViewModel viewModel)
{
    using (NewsCMSEntities entity = new NewsCMSEntities())
    {
        if (ModelState.IsValid)
        {
            try
            {
                category = entity.Categoies.Find(viewModel.Id);
                AutoMapper.Mapper.Map<CategoriesViewModel, Categoies>(viewModel, category);
                //category = AutoMapper.Mapper.Map<CategoriesViewModel, Categoies>(viewModel);
                //AutoMapper.Mapper.Map(viewModel, category);
                entity.SaveChanges();

                // Veritabanı işlemleri başarılı ise yönlendirilecek sayfayı 
                // belirleyip ajax-post-success fonksiyonuna gönder.
                return Json(new { url = Url.Action("Index") });
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {

            }
        }

        // Veritabanı işlemleri başarısız ise modeli tekrar gönder.
        ViewBag.Positions = new SelectList(entity.CategoryPositions.ToList(), "Id", "Name");
        return PartialView(viewModel);
    }
}

And Error

Missing type map configuration or unsupported mapping. Mapping types: CategoriesViewModel -> Categoies_7314E98C41152985A4218174DDDF658046BC82AB0ED9E1F0440514D79052F84D NewsCMS.Areas.Admin.Models.CategoriesViewModel -> System.Data.Entity.DynamicProxies.Categoies_7314E98C41152985A4218174DDDF658046BC82AB0ED9E1F0440514D79052F84D

Destination path: Categoies_7314E98C41152985A4218174DDDF658046BC82AB0ED9E1F0440514D79052F84D

Source value: NewsCMS.Areas.Admin.Models.CategoriesViewModel

What am I missing? I try to find, but I cant see problem.

UPDATE

I have specified in application_start in Global.asax

protected void Application_Start()
{
    InitializeAutoMapper.Initialize();
}

InitializeClass

public static class InitializeAutoMapper
{
    public static void Initialize()
    {
        CreateModelsToViewModels();
        CreateViewModelsToModels();
    }

    private static void CreateModelsToViewModels()
    {
        Mapper.CreateMap<Categoies, CategoriesViewModel>();
    }

    private static void CreateViewModelsToModels()
    {
        Mapper.CreateMap<CategoriesViewModel, Categoies>()
            .ForMember(c => c.CategoryPositions, option => option.Ignore())
            .ForMember(c => c.Posts, option => option.Ignore());
    }
}

Answer 1

I created a new AutomapperProfile class. It extends Profile. We have over 100 projects in our solution. Many projects have an AutomapperProfile class, but this one was new to this existing project. However, I did find what I had to do to fix this issue for us. There is a Binding project. Within the Initialization there is this code:

var mappingConfig = new List<Action<IConfiguration>>();

// Initialize the Automapper Configuration for all Known Assemblies
mappingConfig.AddRange( new List<Action<IConfiguration>>
{
   ConfigureProfilesInAssemblyOfType<Application.Administration.AutomapperProfile>,
   //...

I had to add ConfigureProfilesInAssemblyOfType<MyNewNamespace.AutomapperProfile>

Note that ConfigureProfilesInAssemblyOfType looks like this:

    private static void ConfigureProfilesInAssemblyOfType<T>( IConfiguration configuration )
    {
        var log = LogProvider.Get( typeof (AutomapperConfiguration) );

        // The Automapper Profile Type
        var automapperProfileType = typeof (Profile);

        // The Assembly containing the type
        var assembly = typeof (T).Assembly;
        log.Debug( "Scanning " + assembly.FullName );

        // Configure any Profile classes found in the assembly containing the type.
        assembly.GetTypes()
            .Where( automapperProfileType.IsAssignableFrom ).ToList()
            .ForEach( x =>
            {
                log.Debug( "Adding Profile '" + x.FullName + "'" );
                configuration.AddProfile( Activator.CreateInstance( x ) as Profile );
            } );
    }

Best regards, -Jeff

Answer 2

Upgrade Automapper to version 6.2.2. It helped me

Answer 3

In your class AutoMapper profile, you need to create a map for your entity and viewmodel.

ViewModel To Domain Model Mappings:

This is usually in AutoMapper/DomainToViewModelMappingProfile

In Configure(), add a line like

Mapper.CreateMap<YourEntityViewModel, YourEntity>();

Domain Model To ViewModel Mappings:

In ViewModelToDomainMappingProfile, add:

Mapper.CreateMap<YourEntity, YourEntityViewModel>();

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Gist example

Answer 4

I know this is a rather old question as of now, but I had found the proper solution was that I was not declaring the assembly attribute.

My code is:

using AutoMapper;
...

namespace [...].Controllers
{
    public class HousingTenureTypesController : LookupController<HousingTenureType, LookupTypeModel>
    {
        Mapper.CreateMap<HousingTenureType, LookupTypeModel>().ReverseMap();
    }
    ...
}

This was fixed by adding the following line before my namespace declaration:

[assembly: WebActivatorEx.PreApplicationStartMethod(typeof(HousingTenureTypesController), "AutoMapperStart")]

The full code is:

using AutoMapper;
...

[assembly: WebActivatorEx.PreApplicationStartMethod(typeof(HousingTenureTypesController), "AutoMapperStart")]

namespace [...].Controllers
{
    public class HousingTenureTypesController : LookupController<HousingTenureType, LookupTypeModel>
    {
        Mapper.CreateMap<HousingTenureType, LookupTypeModel>().ReverseMap();
    }
    ...
}

Answer 5

I found the solution, Thanks all for reply.

category = (Categoies)AutoMapper.Mapper.Map(viewModel, category, typeof(CategoriesViewModel), typeof(Categoies));

But, I have already dont know the reason. I cant understand fully.

Answer 6

I did this to remove the error:

Mapper.CreateMap<FacebookUser, ProspectModel>();
prospect = Mapper.Map(prospectFromDb, prospect);