Question

Holla,

I have an data access object as follows:

class Foo : IStorable
{
  string name;
  int age;
  .. many more
}

I have another object like this:

class FooViewModel
{ 
  Foo data;
  Bar moreData;
  Car evenMore
}

So i m reading Foo object from database and i have to construct a ViewModel. ViewModel has a Foo object and some other objects as well. I want to map Foo to ViewModel’s Foo.

How can i map this with AutoMapper?

Mapper.CreateMap<Foo, FooViewModel>();

Would this work? and how would I access get it?

Essentially i have classes with many properties, i want to avoid typing (being lazy)

Answer 1

The FooViewModel should have all of the properties of Foo that you would like to map, not a ‘Foo’ property.

Then, you will be able to use AutoMapper to map Foo to FooViewModel and any relational dependencies that Foo has will not end up in the FooViewModel.