How do you handle with DAL objects and ViewModel objects?
Are you still writing mapper for every class?
I guess you’re wasting your time…
Meet Automapper! A convention-based object-object mapper.
Installation with NuGet
Install-Package AutoMapper
ViewModel
class UserViewModel
{
public string Name { get; set; }
public string Surname { get; set; }
public string EmailAddress { get; set; }
}
DAL Object
class User
{
public User()
{
this.Id = Guid.NewGuid();
this.CreateDate = DateTime.Now;
}
public Guid Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public string Surname { get; set; }
public string EmailAddress { get; set; }
public DateTime CreateDate { get; set; }
}
Automapping
// Initialize AutoMapper
AutoMapper.Mapper.Initialize(x => x.CreateMap<UserViewModel, User>());
// Single Object
UserViewModel userViewModel = new UserViewModel();
userViewModel.Name = "Kemal";
userViewModel.Surname = "Etikan";
userViewModel.EmailAddress = "[email protected]";
// Mapping single object
User user = AutoMapper.Mapper.Map<UserViewModel, User>(userViewModel);
//Mapping list with custom object
List<UserViewModel> userViewModelList = new List<UserViewModel>();
userViewModelList.Add(userViewModel);
List<User> userList = AutoMapper.Mapper.Map<List<UserViewModel>, List<User>>(userViewModelList);
You can download source code from –> Here
