Question

I have 2 classes with exactly the same named attributes (1 business class, and 1 data class).

At this moment i’ve written a ‘convert’ method that maps all the attributes van 1 class to the other:

private class BusinessLogic convert(Datalogic dataclass)
{
    Businesslogic businessclass = new BusinessLogic();
    businessclass.ID = dataclass.ID;
    businessclass.name = dataclass.name;
    .....
    return businessclass;
}

It seems to be that there must be a far more simpler way. I’m only not sure how to search for it. Can someone put me on the right track.

Answer 1

This is a task for a mapping tool, e.g. AutoMapper – if all the properties are named the same this pretty much is a one-line since by convention they will be mapped to the corresponding property in the target class.

For your particular example that could be:

Mapper.CreateMap<Datalogic, BusinessLogic>();
BusinessLogic businessclass = Mapper.Map<Datalogic, BusinessLogic>(dataclass);