Question

I was hoping that I could map a flat datareader into a nested DTO. Running the following code the name is null. Am I doing something wrong or is this just not possible?

class Program
{
    public class Person
    {
        public int id { get; set; }
        public Name name { get; set; }
    } 

    public class Name
    {
        public string first_name { get; set; }
        public string last_name { get; set; }
    }

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        DataTable table = CreateSampleDataTable();
        Mapper.CreateMap<IDataReader, Person>();
        Mapper.CreateMap<IDataReader, Name>();

        var results = Mapper.Map<IDataReader, IList<Person>>(table.CreateDataReader());           
    }

    private static DataTable CreateSampleDataTable()
    {
        var table = new DataTable();

        table.Columns.Add("id", typeof(int));
        table.Columns.Add("first_name", typeof(string));
        table.Columns.Add("last_name", typeof(string));

        table.Rows.Add(100, "Jeff", "Barnes");
        table.Rows.Add(101, "George", "Costanza");
        table.Rows.Add(102, "Stewie", "Griffin");
        table.Rows.Add(103, "Stan", "Marsh");
        table.Rows.Add(104, "Eric", "Cartman");
        return table;
    }
}

Answer 1

possible with the ValueInjecter:

public class DanRyan
{
    [Test]
    public void Main()
    {
        var persons = new List<Person>();
        var table = CreateSampleDataTable();
        var reader = table.CreateDataReader();

        while (reader.Read())
        {
            var p = new Person();

            p.InjectFrom<ReaderInjection>(reader);

            p.name = new Name();
            p.name.InjectFrom<ReaderInjection>(reader);

            persons.Add(p);
        }

        persons.Count.IsEqualTo(5);
        persons[0].id.IsEqualTo(100);
        persons[0].name.first_name.IsEqualTo("Jeff");
        persons[0].name.last_name.IsEqualTo("Barnes");
    }

    public class Person
    {
        public int id { get; set; }
        public Name name { get; set; }
    }

    public class Name
    {
        public string first_name { get; set; }
        public string last_name { get; set; }
    }

    private static DataTable CreateSampleDataTable()
    {
        var table = new DataTable();

        table.Columns.Add("id", typeof(int));
        table.Columns.Add("first_name", typeof(string));
        table.Columns.Add("last_name", typeof(string));

        table.Rows.Add(100, "Jeff", "Barnes");
        table.Rows.Add(101, "George", "Costanza");
        table.Rows.Add(102, "Stewie", "Griffin");
        table.Rows.Add(103, "Stan", "Marsh");
        table.Rows.Add(104, "Eric", "Cartman");
        return table;
    }

    public class ReaderInjection : KnownSourceValueInjection<IDataReader>
    {
        protected override void Inject(IDataReader source, object target)
        {
            for (var i = 0; i < source.FieldCount; i++)
            {
                var activeTarget = target.GetProps().GetByName(source.GetName(i), true);
                if (activeTarget == null) continue;

                var value = source.GetValue(i);
                if (value == DBNull.Value) continue;

                activeTarget.SetValue(target, value);
            }
        }
    }
}