Mapping Property Object Over Target

[SlowLogicBoy]

Is there a better way to do this?:

class Statistics
{
    public float Ranking {get; set;}
    public string SomeOtherRankingStuff {get; set;}
}
class Model
{
   public string SomeOtherProperties {get;set;}
   public Statistics Statistics {get; set;}
}
class ModelDto
{
   public string SomeOtherProperties {get;set;}
   public float Ranking {get; set;}
   public string SomeOtherRankingStuff {get; set;}
}
Mapper.WhenMapping
    .From<Model>()
    .To<ModelDto>()
    .After.MappingEnds
    .Call(ctx => ctx.Source.Statistics.Map().Over(ctx.Target));

I want to map Statistics property Over ModelDto, since it doesn't have a seperate property for statistics?

[SteveWilkes]

Hi!

That's probably as good a way of doing it as exists currently - is there a configuration syntax or way of performing the mapping you'd like to be able to use?

Depending on your configuration-placement preferences, it's a tiny bit neater configuring it inline, imo:

var modelDto = model.Map().ToANew<ModelDto>(cfg => cfg
    .After.MappingEnds
    .Call((m, dto) => m.Statistics.Map().Over(dto)));

[SlowLogicBoy]

Hi,

Thanks for a fast response.

I was hoping to find something like

cfg => cfg.WhenMapping.From<Video>()
    .To<YoutubeVideo>()
    .Map(ctx => ctx.Source.Statistics).ToSelf()

or maybe .Map(ctx => ctx.Source.Statistics).To(t => t) but this might be difficult since arguments is an expression. As a worst case (probably) .Manual(Action<TTarget, TSource> manualFunc)
'.Manual' example:

.Manual((t, s) => t.Statistics.Map().Over(s));

[SteveWilkes]

I like ToSelf(), or maybe ToTarget() - I'll look at adding it in this week.

Thanks for the feedback! :)

[SteveWilkes]

Added in the latest code - release to follow:

Mapper.WhenMapping
    .From<Video>().To<YoutubeVideo>()
    .Map(ctx => ctx.Source.Statistics)
    .ToTarget();

...or:

var youtubeVideo = video.Map()
    .ToANew<YoutubeVideo>(cfg => cfg
        .Map(ctx => ctx.Source.Statistics)
        .ToTarget());

[SteveWilkes]

Available in v0.24 - thanks for the feedback! :)