How to map collections in Dozer

Question

I\'d like to do something like:

ArrayList objects = new ArrayList();
...
DozerBeanMapper MAPPER = new DozerBeanMapper         


        

Answer 1

I faced a similar issue, and decided on using a generic utility method to avoid iterating every time I needed to perform such mapping.

public static  List map(final Mapper mapper, final List source, final Class destType) {

    final List dest = new ArrayList<>();

    for (T element : source) {
        dest.add(mapper.map(element, destType));
    }

    return dest;
}

Usage would then be something like:

    final List accounts..... 
    final List actual = Util.map(mapper, accounts, NewObject.class);

Possibly this could be simplified further though.