How to configure Automapper to automatically ignore properties with ReadOnly attribute?

Question

Context:

Let\'s say I have the following \"destination\" class:

public class Destination
{
    public String WritableProperty { get; set; }

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Answer 1

Write Extension Method as shown below:

public static class IgnoreReadOnlyExtensions
{
    public static IMappingExpression<TSource, TDestination> IgnoreReadOnly<TSource, TDestination>(
               this IMappingExpression<TSource, TDestination> expression)
    {
        var sourceType = typeof(TSource);

        foreach (var property in sourceType.GetProperties())
        {
            PropertyDescriptor descriptor = TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(sourceType)[property.Name];
            ReadOnlyAttribute attribute = (ReadOnlyAttribute) descriptor.Attributes[typeof(ReadOnlyAttribute)];
            if(attribute.IsReadOnly == true)
                expression.ForMember(property.Name, opt => opt.Ignore());
        }
        return expression;
    }
}

To call extension method:

Mapper.CreateMap<ViewModel, DomainModel>().IgnoreReadOnly();

Answer 2

Now you could also use ForAllPropertyMaps to disable it globally:

configure.ForAllPropertyMaps(map =>
    map.SourceMember.GetCustomAttributes().OfType<ReadOnlyAttribute>().Any(x => x.IsReadOnly),
    (map, configuration) =>
    {
        configuration.Ignore();
    });

Answer 3

If you wanted to only map properties that have a certain attribute, in my case the [DataMember] attribute, I wrote a method based on the excellent reply above to handle this for both the source and destination:

public static class ClaimMappingExtensions
{
    public static IMappingExpression<TSource, TDestination> IgnoreAllButMembersWithDataMemberAttribute<TSource, TDestination>(
               this IMappingExpression<TSource, TDestination> expression)
    {
        var sourceType = typeof(TSource);
        var destinationType = typeof(TDestination);

        foreach (var property in sourceType.GetProperties())
        {
            var descriptor = TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(sourceType)[property.Name];
            var hasDataMemberAttribute = descriptor.Attributes.OfType<DataMemberAttribute>().Any();
            if (!hasDataMemberAttribute)
                expression.ForSourceMember(property.Name, opt => opt.Ignore());
        }

        foreach (var property in destinationType.GetProperties())
        {
            var descriptor = TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(destinationType)[property.Name];
            var hasDataMemberAttribute = descriptor.Attributes.OfType<DataMemberAttribute>().Any();
            if (!hasDataMemberAttribute)
                expression.ForMember(property.Name, opt => opt.Ignore());
        }

        return expression;
    }
}

It will be called as the other method did:

Mapper.CreateMap<ViewModel,DomainModel>().IgnoreAllButMembersWithDataMemberAttribute();