Question

I’m using automapper and I would like to know if it’s possible to ignore a mapping of a field when that’s null.

That’s my code:

.ForMember(dest => dest.BusinessGroup_Id, 
           opt => opt.MapFrom(src => (int)src.BusinessGroup))

• src.BusinessGroup type = "enum"
• dest.BusinessGroup_Id = int

The objective it’s to ingore that Mapping if src.BusinessGroup = null.

Answer 1

I think NullSubstitute option will do the trick

.ForMember(d => d.BusinessGroup_Id, o => o.MapFrom(s => (int?)s.BusinessGroup));
.ForMember(d => d.BusinessGroup_Id, o => o.NullSubstitute(0));

BTW you can write your conditions in mapping action:

.ForMember(d => d.BusinessGroup_Id,
           o => o.MapFrom(s => s.BusinessGroup == null ? 0 : (int)s.BusinessGroup));   

UPDATE if you cannot assign some default value to your property, you can just ignore it and map only not nulls:

.ForMember(d => d.BusinessGroup_Id, o => o.Ignore())
.AfterMap((s, d) =>
    {
        if (s.BusinessGroup != null)
            d.BusinessGroup_Id = (int)s.BusinessGroup;
    });