Automapper - how to display a list of objects

Question

Say my domain object may contain a bunch of these objects:

List<Thing> Things

where thing is defined as follows:

class Thing
(
    public int ThingId { get; set; }
    public string ThingName { get; set; }
)

My DTO contains

List<string> ThingIds;
List<string> ThingNames;

The question is, how can I use automapper to map Things to "corresponding bits" in the DTO?

Thank.

Christian

Answer 1

When writing a custom converter , I think.

This is a rather unusual requirement - to lose the binding between id and name.

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I think you're right. sorry, I'm still learning about dto / viewmodel mapping. Do you find it acceptable to place a domain object inside a DTO, since it makes no sense to create a dto for Thing?

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class Thing {
    public int ThingId { get; set; }
    public string ThingName { get; set; }
    public string UnnecessaryProp {get;set;}
}

class ThingViewModel {
    public int ThingId { get; set; }
    public string ThingName { get; set; }
}

class MyView {
    public IEnumerable<ThingViewModel> Things {get;set;}
}

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