AutoMapper and flattening nested arrays
- by Bryan Slatner
I'm trying to use AutoMapper to flatten multiple levels of arrays.
Consider the following source classes:
class X {
public string A { get; set; }
public Y[] B { get; set; }
}
class Y {
public string C { get; set; }
public Z[] D { get; set; }
}
class Z {
public string E { get; set; }
public string F { get; set; }
}
And the following destination:
class Destination {
public string A { get; set; }
public string C { get; set; }
public string E { get; set; }
public string F { get; set; }
}
What I'd like to be able to do is get a List from one or more X, e.g.:
Mapper.Map<IEnumerable<X>, IEnumerable<Destination>>(arrayOfX);
I'm unable to figure out what sort of mapping configuration to use to achieve this. MapFrom seems like the way to go for 1:1 compositions, but doesn't seem to be able to handle the array (or other enumerable) unless I use AutoMapper's destination naming convention.
Any insights on how to achieve this?
