Injecting AutoMapper dependencies using Ninject

Question

I am having trouble injecting AutoMapper into an ASP.NET MVC 2 application using Ninject. I used Jimmy Bogard\'s post on AutoMapper and StructureMap type Configuration as a guid

Answer 1

It might also be a good idea to introduce a mapping facade. Instead of passing IMappingEngine through out your code create an IObjectMapper interface. The interface I use contains method signatures taken directly out of automappers code.

public interface IObjectMapper
{ 
  TDestination Map(TSource source);
  TDestination Map(TSource source, TDestination destination);
  object Map(object source, Type sourceType, Type destinationType);
  object Map(object source, object destination, Type sourceType, Type destinationType);
}

Your configuration is still going to be automapper dependent.

A blog post I wrote on it is here: http://fodonnel.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/an-object-mapper-facade/