Automapper in WebAPI Controller

Question

I have a Car WebAPI controller method as below - note _carService.GetCarData returns a collection of CarDataDTO objects

[HttpGet]
[Route(\"api/Car/Retrieve/{carM         


        

Answer 1

You could install the AutoMapper nuget package from: AutoMapper And then declare a class like:

public class AutoMapperConfig
{
    public static void Initialize()
    {
        Mapper.Initialize((config) =>
        {
            config.CreateMap<Source, Destination>().ReverseMap();
        });
    }
}

And then call this in your Global.asax like this:

public class WebApiApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication
{
    protected void Application_Start()
    {
        AutoMapperConfig.Initialize();
        GlobalConfiguration.Configure(WebApiConfig.Register);
    }
}

And if you would like to ignore certain properties then you could do something like this:

Mapper.CreateMap<Source, Destination>()
  .ForMember(dest => dest.SomePropToIgnore, opt => opt.Ignore())

And the way you use this for mapping is:

DestinationType obj = Mapper.Map<SourceType, DestinationType>(sourceValueObject);
List<DestinationType> listObj = Mapper.Map<List<SourceType>, List<DestinationType>>(enumarableSourceValueObject);