Question

I have a list of objects of this class:

public class DataPoint
{
    public class Item
    {
        public string name { get; set; }
        public int total { get; set; }
    }
    public List<Item> Items { get; set; }
    public DateTime Date { get; set; }
}

I want to convert that list of DataPoints into a list of objects of this class:

public class ChartSeries
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public List<uint> Values { get; set; }
}

Here is an explicit example of the list of DataPoints

IEnumerable<DataPoint> data = new List<DataPoint>() { 
    new DataPoint() { date = DateTime.Today.AddDays(-4), Items = new List<DataPoint.Item>() {new DataPoint.Item() {name="Pirates", total=90 } , {new DataPoint.Item() {name="Buccaneers", total=20 } }}}, 
    new DataPoint() { date = DateTime.Today.AddDays(-3), Items = new List<DataPoint.Item>() {new DataPoint.Item() {name="Pirates", total=80 } , {new DataPoint.Item() {name="Buccaneers", total=19 } }}},
    new DataPoint() { date = DateTime.Today.AddDays(-2), Items = new List<DataPoint.Item>() {new DataPoint.Item() {name="Pirates", total=70 } , {new DataPoint.Item() {name="Buccaneers", total=18 } }}},
    new DataPoint() { date = DateTime.Today.AddDays(-1), Items = new List<DataPoint.Item>() {new DataPoint.Item() {name="Pirates", total=60 } , {new DataPoint.Item() {name="Buccaneers", total=17 } }}},
    new DataPoint() { date = DateTime.Today.AddDays(-0), Items = new List<DataPoint.Item>() {new DataPoint.Item() {name="Pirates", total=50 } , {new DataPoint.Item() {name="Buccaneers", total=16 } }}}
};

I want to convert that first list into a list of ChartSeries that would look like this:

IEnumerable<ChartSeries> series = new List<ChartSeries>() {
        new ChartSeries() { Name = "Pirates", Values = new List<uint>() { 90, 80, 70, 60, 50} },
        new ChartSeries() { Name = "Buccaneers", Values = new List<uint>() { 20, 19, 18, 17, 16} },
};

How can I do this with Linq?

Answer 1

Tested in LINQPad:

var q = from d in data
        from i in d.Items
        group i by i.name into g
        select new ChartSeries{
            Name = g.Key,
            Values = g.Select(i => (uint)i.total).ToList()
        };