Mapping to a Dictionary

Question

I was trying to map a csv file so that each record would simply be a Dictionary.

I am receiving an

Argument

Answer 1

Unfortunately, there currently is no support for mapping to a Dictionary.

If you try doing GetRecords>(), you will get an error.

Types that inhererit IEnumerable cannot be auto mapped. Did you accidentally call GetRecord or WriteRecord which acts on a single record instead of calling GetRecords or WriteRecords which acts on a list of records?

You can't map to a Dictionary either. In a mapping you need to specify a property of the class for the field to be mapped to. The indexer is not a member property which is why you're getting that error.

SOLUTION:

What you CAN do is this:

var record = csv.GetRecord();

You can use it as a dynamic object.

DESIRED SOLUTION

Internally, it uses the ExpandoObject, so you can do this.

var dict = csv.GetRecord() as IDictionary;