Dapper. Map to SQL Column with spaces in column names

Question

I\'ve managed to get something up and running today as small sandbox/POC project, but have seemed to bump my head on one issue...

Question:

Answer 1

There's a nuget package Dapper.FluentMap that allows you to add column name mappings (including spaces). It's similar to EntityFramework.

// Entity class.
public class Customer
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

// Mapper class.
public class CustomerMapper : EntityMap<Customer>
{
    public CustomerMapper()
    {
        Map(p => p.Name).ToColumn("Customer Name");
    }
}

// Initialise like so - 
FluentMapper.Initialize(a => a.AddMap(new CustomerMapper()));

see https://github.com/henkmollema/Dapper-FluentMap for more.

Answer 2

One option here would be to go via the dynamic / non-generic API, and then fetch the values out via the IDictionary<string,object> API per row, but that might be a bit tedious.

As an alternative, you can create a custom mapper, and tell dapper about it; for example:

SqlMapper.SetTypeMap(typeof(ClassA), new RemoveSpacesMap());

with:

class RemoveSpacesMap : Dapper.SqlMapper.ITypeMap
{

    System.Reflection.ConstructorInfo SqlMapper.ITypeMap.FindConstructor(string[] names, Type[] types)
    {
        return null;
    }

    SqlMapper.IMemberMap SqlMapper.ITypeMap.GetConstructorParameter(System.Reflection.ConstructorInfo constructor, string columnName)
    {
        return null;
    }

    SqlMapper.IMemberMap SqlMapper.ITypeMap.GetMember(string columnName)
    {
        var prop = typeof(ClassA).GetProperty(columnName.Replace(" ", ""));
        return prop == null ? null : new PropertyMemberMap(columnName, prop);
    }
    class PropertyMemberMap : Dapper.SqlMapper.IMemberMap
    {
        private string columnName;
        private PropertyInfo property;
        public PropertyMemberMap(string columnName, PropertyInfo property)
        {
            this.columnName = columnName;
            this.property = property;
        }
        string SqlMapper.IMemberMap.ColumnName
        {
            get { throw new NotImplementedException(); }
        }

        System.Reflection.FieldInfo SqlMapper.IMemberMap.Field
        {
            get { return null; }
        }

        Type SqlMapper.IMemberMap.MemberType
        {
            get { return property.PropertyType; }
        }

        System.Reflection.ParameterInfo SqlMapper.IMemberMap.Parameter
        {
            get { return null; }
        }

        System.Reflection.PropertyInfo SqlMapper.IMemberMap.Property
        {
            get { return property; }
        }
    }
}

Answer 3

I had a similar problem when trying to get mapped results from a call to the system sp_spaceused procedure. Marc's code didn't quite work for me as it complained about not being able to find a default constructor. I also made my version generic so it could theoretically be re-used. This may not be the fastest performing piece of code, but it works for me and in our situation these calls are made infrequently.

class TitleCaseMap<T> : SqlMapper.ITypeMap where T: new()
{
    ConstructorInfo SqlMapper.ITypeMap.FindConstructor(string[] names, Type[] types)
    {
        return typeof(T).GetConstructor(Type.EmptyTypes);
    }

    SqlMapper.IMemberMap SqlMapper.ITypeMap.GetConstructorParameter(ConstructorInfo constructor, string columnName)
    {
        return null;
    }

    SqlMapper.IMemberMap SqlMapper.ITypeMap.GetMember(string columnName)
    {
        string reformattedColumnName = string.Empty;

        foreach (string word in columnName.Replace("_", " ").Split(new[] { ' ' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries))
        {
            reformattedColumnName += char.ToUpper(word[0]) + word.Substring(1).ToLower();
        }

        var prop = typeof(T).GetProperty(reformattedColumnName);

        return prop == null ? null : new PropertyMemberMap(prop);
    }

    class PropertyMemberMap : SqlMapper.IMemberMap
    {
        private readonly PropertyInfo _property;

        public PropertyMemberMap(PropertyInfo property)
        {
            _property = property;
        }
        string SqlMapper.IMemberMap.ColumnName
        {
            get { throw new NotImplementedException(); }
        }

        FieldInfo SqlMapper.IMemberMap.Field
        {
            get { return null; }
        }

        Type SqlMapper.IMemberMap.MemberType
        {
            get { return _property.PropertyType; }
        }

        ParameterInfo SqlMapper.IMemberMap.Parameter
        {
            get { return null; }
        }

        PropertyInfo SqlMapper.IMemberMap.Property
        {
            get { return _property; }
        }
    }
}