Question

Slightly more advanced mapping then in my previous question 🙂

Tables:

create table [Primary] (
    Id int not null,
    CustomerId int not null,
    CustomerName varchar(60) not null,
    Date datetime default getdate(),
    constraint PK_Primary primary key (Id)
)

create table Secondary(
    PrimaryId int not null,
    Id int not null,
    Date datetime default getdate(),
    constraint PK_Secondary primary key (PrimaryId, Id),
    constraint FK_Secondary_Primary foreign key (PrimaryId) references [Primary] (Id)
)

create table Tertiary(
    PrimaryId int not null,
    SecondaryId int not null,
    Id int not null,
    Date datetime default getdate(),
    constraint PK_Tertiary primary key (PrimaryId, SecondaryId, Id),
    constraint FK_Tertiary_Secondary foreign key (PrimaryId, SecondaryId) references Secondary (PrimaryId, Id)
)

Classes:

public class Primary
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public Customer Customer { get; set; }
    public DateTime Date { get; set; }
    public List<Secondary> Secondaries { get; set; }
}

public class Secondary
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public DateTime Date { get; set; }
    public List<Tertiary> Tertiarys { get; set; }
}

public class Tertiary
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public DateTime Date { get; set; }
}

public class Customer
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

Is it possible to use one select to fill them all? Something like this:

const string sqlStatement = @"
    select 
        p.Id, p.CustomerId, p.CustomerName, p.Date,
        s.Id, s.Date,
        t.Id, t.Date
    from 
        [Primary] p left join Secondary s on (p.Id = s.PrimaryId)
        left join Tertiary t on (s.PrimaryId = t.PrimaryId and s.Id = t.SecondaryId)
    order by 
        p.Id, s.Id, t.Id
";

And then:

IEnumerable<Primary> primaries = connection.Query<Primary, Customer, Secondary, Tertiary, Primary>(
    sqlStatement,
    ... here comes dragons ...
    );

Edit1 – I could do it with two nested loops (foreach secondaries -> foreach tertiaries) and perform a query for each item, but just wonder if it could be done with single database call.

Edit2 – maybe the QueryMultiple method would be appropriate here, but if I understand correctly then I would need multiple select statements. In my real life example the select has more then 20 conditions (in where clause), where the search parameter could be null so I would not like to repeat all those where statements in all the queries…

Answer 1

Dapper supports Multi Mapping, for documentation see: http://code.google.com/p/dapper-dot-net/

Here is one of the examples from one of the projects I’m currently working on:

        var accounts2 = DbConnection.Query<Account, Branch, Application, Account>(
                    "select Accounts.*, SplitAccount = '', Branches.*, SplitBranch = '', Applications.*" +
                    " from Accounts" +
                    "    join Branches" +
                    "       on Accounts.BranchId = Branches.BranchId" +
                    "    join Applications" +
                    "       on Accounts.ApplicationId = Applications.ApplicationId" +
                    " where Accounts.AccountId <> 0",
                    (account, branch, application) =>
                    {
                        account.Branch = branch;
                        account.Application = application;
                        return account;
                    }, splitOn: "SplitAccount, SplitBranch"
                    ).AsQueryable();

The trick is to use the splitOn option, to divide record-set into multiple objects.

You can also check my question to see class structure for the above example: Dapper Multi-mapping Issue