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How do I add a reference to AutoMapper?
How to using AutoMapper on ASP.NET Core 3.0 via Dependency Injection
- Install AutoMapper extension from Package Manager in your project.
- Register a service in CinfigureServices on Startup.cs.
- Create a model and a data transfer object.
- Create an AutoMapping class file to register a mapping relation.
What is reverse map in Automapper?
The Automapper Reverse Mapping is nothing but the two-way mapping which is also called as bidirectional mapping. As of now, the mapping we discussed are one directional means if we have two types let’s say Type A and Type B, then we Map Type A with Type B.
What is Automapper profile?
automapper Profiles Basic Profile Profiles permit the programmer to organize maps into classes, enhancing code readability and maintainability. Any number of profiles can be created, and added to one or more configurations as needed. Profiles can be used with both the static and instance-based APIs.
How can automapper help you?
AutoMapper is an excellent feature that provides you a wonderful opportunity that provides a few configurations of mapping between two objects of different types that helps to lead to the segregated models and can affect the object types in that particular layer in case of multilayer scenarios and can help you to avoid the conflict.
Does automapper have modules?
We have very modular application design, each module is responsible of registering own mapper profiles. Currently services.AddAutoMapper (i => i.AddProfile (…)); cannot be called multiple times because of Mapper.Initialize being overwriting previous setup. Additionally services are not added with TryAdd…
How to map two entity to one with automapper?
AutoMapper uses reflection to look at the properties of the source and destination classes (in the example above, the source class is the Team entity and the destination class is the TeamDTO data transfer object). For any property with the same name and type that occurs in both classes, a map definition is created that specifies that the value
How to use automapper in Azure Functions?
What is Automapper?