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I got some pattern Nazi at work and they are like "you MUST use AutoMapper otherwise we refuse your project"!

When I look at AutoMapper I am like meh...
I can vaguely see that some people might find it useful in some cases....
But, almost on matter of principle myself, I hate pattern Nazi and they motivate me to do exactly the opposite of what they say...

What are your though on AutoMapper?.. Am I going to die if I don't use it?

Posted 21-Oct-13 14:16pm

Super Lloyd

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Ranjan.D · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-21T14:18:00

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Automapper is an amazing small, simple and elegant mapper in this world and moreover it's OpenSource :)

Posted 21-Oct-13 14:18pm

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Super Lloyd 21-Oct-13 20:20pm

So.. I don't really need it.
It's just that *IF* I ever feel like I need a mapper, then I should use that one? Just as I thought! ^^

Ranjan.D 21-Oct-13 20:38pm

Some times it becomes so mandatory , consider an example you are implementing a WCF Service where in you might or not be using EF for data access or say you will be having a data access object , now that you need to map the data access object to your data contract as a return value of your service and We can do vise versa. There are lots of circumstances were in we can make use of Automapper.

Super Lloyd 21-Oct-13 21:59pm

yeah basically I am looking for example where I can put it to good use!
Mapping field for the sake of doing it is counter productive!...
I thought of another use, when using .edmx, the EF class have no validation attribute, annoying. Intermediary class with validation attribute might the less cumbersome solution to that!

Ranjan.D 21-Oct-13 22:13pm

Please take a look into the Automapper unit tests https://github.com/AutoMapper/AutoMapper/tree/develop/src/UnitTests , you will come to know various scenarios you can make use of it.

I have seen many peoples using even in MVC Projects to build ViewModels. I will shortly share with you free realworld samples.

Ranjan.D 21-Oct-13 23:23pm

Please take a look into the Automapper unit tests https://github.com/AutoMapper/AutoMapper/tree/develop/src/UnitTests , you will come to know various scenarios you can make use of it.

I have seen many peoples using even in MVC Projects to build ViewModels. I will shortly share with you free realworld samples.

Ranjan.D 21-Oct-13 22:11pm

Super Lloyd,

Please take a look into the Automapper unit tests https://github.com/AutoMapper/AutoMapper/tree/develop/src/UnitTests , You will come to know exactly where you can make use of it.

I have seen people do really make a good use of it even in MVC project to map and get ViewModels. I will let you know shortly with real world examples.