Entity Framework + AutoMapper ( Entity to DTO and DTO to Entity )

Question

I\'ve got some problems using EF with AutoMapper. =/

for example :

I\'ve got 2 related entities ( Customers and Orders ) and they\'re DTO classes :

Answer 1

I'm not sure what your problem is, but - when i wanted to use LINQToEntities (switched to NHibernate),
i managed to use automapper with success.

Take a look at code:

public class SimpleMapper
{
    public static TTo Map(TFrom fromModel)
    {
        Mapper.CreateMap();
        return Mapper.Map(fromModel);
    }

    public static IList MapList(IList fromModel)
    {
        Mapper.CreateMap();
        return Mapper.Map, IList>(fromModel);
    }
}

public class RepositoryBase
{
    public IList Map(IList model)
    {
        return SimpleMapper.MapList(model);
    }

    public TModel Map(TLINQModel model)
    {
        return SimpleMapper.Map(model);
    }

    public TLINQModel Map(TModel model)
    {
        return SimpleMapper.Map(model);
    }

    public IList Map(IList model)
    {
        return SimpleMapper.MapList(model);
    }

    public IList Map(IList model)
    {
        return SimpleMapper.MapList(model);
    }
}

It's quite cryptic, always recreates mappings, but it worked. I hope it helps somehow. :)