Error on mapping an entity on another with a property more using Automapper

Question

I am trying to mapping a entity in another with similar properties but I would like to have a field more in my "destination type". I want to map a Entity that use the destination value for a null field of the source class and I don´t want to have all fields mapped on my source type.

Have a look at the example:

[TestClass]
public class Example
{
  public class Person
  {
      public string FirstName { get; set; }
      public string LastName { get; set; }
      public int? Foo { get; set; }
  }

  public class DPerson
  {
      public string FirstName { get; set; }
      public string LastName { get; set; }
      public int? Foo { get; set; }
      public bool IsUser { get; set; }
  }

  [TestMethod]
  public void TestNullIgnore()
  {
      Mapper.CreateMap<Person, DPerson>()
          .ForAllMembers(opt => opt.Condition(srs => !srs.IsSourceValueNull));

      var sourcePerson = new Person
      {
          FirstName = "Bill",
          LastName = "Gates",
      };
      var destinationPerson = new DPerson
      {
          FirstName = "",
          LastName = "",
          Foo = 1,
          IsUser = true
      };
      Mapper.Map(sourcePerson, destinationPerson);

      Assert.IsNotNull(destinationPerson);
      Assert.AreEqual(1, destinationPerson.Foo);
      Assert.AreEqual(true, destinationPerson.IsUser);
  }
}

When I added IsUser property at DPerson class The AutoMapper throws an odd exception "AutoMapper.AutoMapperMappingException" and in its message it said that it is not possible to map "Person -> Boolean".

If I remove ".ForAllMembers(opt => opt.Condition(srs => !srs.IsSourceValueNull))" configuration it works but I got "null" at the Foo property.

I adpated the code of the first answer for this question: AutoMapper.Map ignore all Null value properties from source object

Can anyone help me?

Cheers.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 11 '14 at 16:34

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The error message is odd--but it does make sense that IsSourceValueNull is not working in this particular case. Since IsUser is of type bool, its value can never be null.

This means that when AutoMapper evaluates IsSourceValueNull for that property, it's getting "false" every time for the IsUser property. Then, it tries to map the IsUser property and fails.

One way to fix this is to explicitly ignore the IsUser property:

Mapper.CreateMap<Person, DPerson>()
    .ForMember(dest => dest.IsUser, opt => opt.Ignore())         
    .ForAllMembers(opt => opt.Condition(srs => !srs.IsSourceValueNull));

answered Aug 11 '14 at 16:34

Andrew Whitaker

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I said it was odd because the message that was written in the exception sounds to me likes the API was trying to map my class into a bool value that is because I thought it was odd, by the way when I specified the conditional ".ForAllMembers(opt => opt.Condition(srs => !srs.IsSourceValueNull));" I Supposed that I was setting up the fields from my source class "IsSourceValueNull" and my source class (Person), all the fields are nullable. I am still thinking it should have worked. Anyway it is my first project using AutoMapper and I am just supposing. – Dennis José da Silva Aug 11 '14 at 17:36
Can you do this to check types instead? Say you're trying to get double but once in a while you get string. And you want to skip over that or set to 0.0 – Mukus Nov 07 '16 at 23:57

Error on mapping an entity on another with a property more using Automapper

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