Need to speed up automapper…It takes 32 seconds to

Question

Hi I have some major problems with auto mapper and it being slow. I am not sure how to speed it up.

I am using nhibernate,fluent nhibernate and asp.net mvc 3.0

[Serializable()]
    public class Test
    {
        public virtual int Id { get; private set; }
        public virtual string Name { get;  set; }
        public virtual string Description { get; set; }
        public virtual DateTimeDate { get; set; }
        public virtual IList<Reminder> Reminders { get; set; }
        public virtual IList<Reminder2> Reminders2 { get; set; }
        public virtual Test2 Test2 { get; set; }

        public Test()
        {
            Reminders = new List<Reminders>();
            Reminders2 = new List<Reminders2>();
        }

    }

So as you can see I got some properties, Some other classes as in my database I have references between them.

I then do this

var a = // get all items (returns a collection of Test2)
var List<MyViewModel> collection = new List<MyViewModel>();
     foreach (Test2 t in a)
            {
                MyViewModel vm = Mapper.Map<Test2, MyViewModel>(t);
                vm.SetDateFormat(t.DateTimeDate, DateFilters.All.ToString());

                collection.Add(vm);
            }

// view model

    public class MyViewModel
        {
            public int Id  { get; private set; }
            public string Name { get; set; }
            public string Description { get; set; }
            public DateTime DateTimeDate { get; set; }
            public string FormatedDueDate { get; set; }
            public string Test2Prefix { get; set; }
            public string Test2BackgroundColor { get; set; }
            public string SelectedDateFilter { get; set; }
            public bool DescState { get; set; }
            public bool AlertState { get; set; }


            /// <summary>
            /// Constructor
            /// </summary>
            public MyViewModel()
            {
                // Default values
                SelectedDateFilter = "All";
                DescState = false;
                AlertState = false;
            }

            /// <summary>
            /// Sets the date formatter string used
            /// </summary>
            /// <param name="dateFormat"></param>
            public void SetDateFormat(DateTime dueDate, string dateFilter)
            {
                // simple if statement to format date.
            }
        }

// mapping

  Mapper.CreateMap<Test2,MyViewModel>().ForMember(dest => dest.DescState, opt =>
 opt.ResolveUsing<DescStateResolver>())
                 .ForMember(dest => dest.AlertState, opt =>
 opt.ResolveUsing<AlertStateResolver>());

// resolvers

public class AlertStateResolver : ValueResolver<Task, bool>
    {
        protected override bool ResolveCore(Task source)
        {
            if (source.Reminders.Count > 0 || source.Reminders2.Count > 0)
            {
                return true;
            }
            else
            {
                return false;
            }
        }
    }   

  public class DescStateResolver : ValueResolver<Task,bool>
    {
        protected override bool ResolveCore(Task source)
        {
            if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(source.Description))
            {
                return false;
            }
            else
            {
                return true;
            }
        }
    }

Ignore the weird names and any typos my real object works just fine and makes sense.

So I used the stop watch and did this

Stopwatch a = new Stopwatch()
    foreach (Test2 t in a)
                {
                    a.Start()                     
                    MyViewModel vm = Mapper.Map<Test2, MyViewModel>(t);
                    a.Stop()
                    vm.SetDateFormat(t.DateTimeDate, DateFilters.All.ToString());

                    collection.Add(vm);
                }

var b = a.Elapsed; // comes back with 32 seconds.

I need to optimized this very badly.

Answer 1

Not sure if this is causing any issues in your case, but beware of serializing auto-implemented properties.

Each time your code is compiled, the name of each (anonymous) backing field is picked at random by the compiler. So you may see some surprising exceptions if you serialize data with a progran that is compiled at one time and de-serialize it with a different program.