Question

My application needs to display a table of customer data, including data about the customer and about his most recent order from a given warehouse. The customer domain object contains a GetLatestOrder(warehouseId) method.

I have a CustomerView viewmodel and want to be able to populate it with some fields from the customer object, and a few fields from the latest order object. Can I do this using Automapper?

Answer 1

In the end, I took the easy approach, couldn’t find another way:

In Application_start:

    Mapper.CreateMap<Customer, CustomerView>();
    Mapper.CreateMap<Order, CustomerView>();

In the controller method:

    IEnumerable<Customer> customers = GetCustomers(false)
                                               .OrderBy(c => c.Name);
    IEnumerable<CustomerView> viewData = Mapper.Map<IEnumerable<Customer>, IEnumerable<CustomerView>>(customers);
    foreach (Customer customer in customers)
    {
        CustomerView view = viewData.Where(cv => cv.CustomerId == customer.CustomerId).First();
        Mapper.Map(customer.GetLatestOrder(WarehouseId), view);
    }