Dictionary map to an object using Automapper

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I am having a class like

public User class
{
 public string Name{get;set;}
 public string Age{get;set;
}
         


        

Answer 1

This thread is a bit old, but nowadays there's how to do it on automapper without any configuration, as stated at official documentation:

AutoMapper can map to/from dynamic objects without any explicit configuration (...) Similarly you can map straight from Dictionary to objects, AutoMapper will line up the keys with property names.

Update:

The following code shows a working sample (with unit tests).

void Test()
{
    var mapper = new MapperConfiguration(cfg => { }).CreateMapper();
    var dictionary = new Dictionary()
    {
        { "Id", 1 },
        { "Description", "test" }
    };

    var product = mapper.Map(dictionary);

    Assert.IsNotNull(product);
    Assert.AreEqual(product.Id, 1);
    Assert.AreEqual(product.Description, "test");
}

class Product
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Description { get; set; }
}