@automapper/classes

This is the official strategy from @automapper to work with TS/ES6 Class

Installation

npm i @automapper/classes

or with yarn:

yarn add @automapper/classes

peerDependencies

@automapper/classes depends on @automapper/core and reflect-metadata.

npm i @automapper/core reflect-metadata

or with yarn:

yarn add @automapper/core reflect-metadata

Usage

@automapper/classes provides classes as a MappingStrategyInitializer. Pass classes() to createMapper to create a Mapper that uses classes strategy.

import { classes, AutoMap } from '@automapper/classes';
import { createMapper, createMap, forMember, mapFrom } from '@automapper/core';

const mapper = createMapper({
  ...,
  strategyInitializer: classes()
});

class User {
    @AutoMap()
    firstName: string;
    @AutoMap()
    lastName: string;

    constructor(firstName: string, lastName: string) {
        this.firstName = firstName;
        this.lastName = lastName;
    }
}

class UserDto {
  @AutoMap()
  firstName: string;
  @AutoMap()
  lastName: string;
  @AutoMap()
  fullName: string;
}

createMap(
    mapper,
    User,
    UserDto,
    forMember(
        d => d.fullName,
        mapFrom(s => s.firstName + ' ' + s.lastName)
    )
);
mapper.map(new User('Auto', 'Mapper'), User, UserDto);
// UserDto { firstName: 'Auto', lastName: 'Mapper', fullName: 'Auto Mapper' }

Customization

classes() accepts two optional parameters:

• destinationConstructor: how to construct the Destination. This is the default destinationConstructor that will be used on mapper.mapXXXX() operations. DestinationConstructor is a function with the following signature:

  export type DestinationConstructor<
      TSource extends Dictionary<TSource> = any,
      TDestination extends Dictionary<TDestination> = any
  > = (
      sourceObject: TSource, // the sourceObject used to map to the Destination
      destinationIdentifier: MetadataIdentifier<TDestination> // the Destination model
  ) => TDestination;
  
  // example
  mapper.map(user, User, UserDto);
  // sourceObject will be "user"
  // destinationIdentifier will be "UserDto"
  // This allows you to provide a default constructor that can be based on the Source object data

  • There is a way to provide one-off custom destinationConstructor to any given Mapping when you run createMap. Read more about constructUsing

• applyMetadata: how the strategy should apply the metadata to a model. The default should work for most cases but if you would like to customize this, you can. ApplyMetadata is a function with the following signature:

  export type ApplyMetadataFn = <TModel extends Dictionary<TModel>>(
      model: MetadataIdentifier<TModel>
  ) => TModel;
  
  export type ApplyMetadata = (
      strategy: MappingStrategy<MetadataIdentifier>
  ) => ApplyMetadataFn;
  
  // for example
  const customApplyMetadata: ApplyMetadata = (strategy: MappingStrategy) => {
      // strategy contains the Mapper which stores all the models' metadata
      return (model) => {
          // based on this model, you can extract the metadata and do as you like
  
          return anObjectThatHasTheMetadataApplied; // { foo: undefined, bar: undefined }
      };
  };

Read more about this strategy on classes documentation