AutoMapper generic mapping

Question

I have searched on Stack Overflow and googled about it but I haven\'t been able to find any help or suggestion on this.

I have a class like the following which create a <

Answer 1

This is a best practice:

first step: create a generice class.

public class AutoMapperGenericsHelper
{
    public static TDestination ConvertToDBEntity(TSource model)
    {
        Mapper.CreateMap();
        return Mapper.Map(model);
    }
}

Second step: Do Use it

[HttpPost]
public HttpResponseMessage Insert(LookupViewModel model)
{
    try
    {
        EducationLookup result = AutoMapperGenericsHelper.ConvertToDBEntity(model);
        this.Uow.EducationLookups.Add(result);
        Uow.Commit(User.Id);
        return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK, result);
    }
    catch (DbEntityValidationException e)
    {
        return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.InternalServerError, CustomExceptionHandler.HandleDbEntityValidationException(e));
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest, ex.HResult.HandleCustomeErrorMessage(ex.Message));
    }

}