How to map a DTO to an existing JPA entity?

Question

I\'m trying to map a Java DTO object to an existing JPA entity object without having to do something like the following:

public MyEntity mapToMyEntity(SomeDT         


        

Answer 1

You can use dozer mapper or gson.

DozerMapper ex:

Mapper mapper = DozerBeanMapperBuilder.createDefault();
DestinationObject destObject = mapper.map(sourceObject,DestinationClassName.class);

You can check github page for more information