将对象复制到对象(使用 Automapper?)

我有课:

public class Person {
public string FirstName { get; set; }
public string LastName { get; set; }
}

我有 Person 的两个实例(Person 1和 Person 2)。我想把 person 2的内容复制到 person 1。我想在一个指令和 没有属性按属性复制这个副本:

person1.LastName = person2.LastName;

在文档中,我看到将一个对象复制到另一个对象,但是类型不同。当类型相同时,如何复制对象?

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Mapper.CreateMap<Person, Person>();


// Perform mapping


var person1 = Mapper.Map<Person, Person>(person2);

Hope this helps.

Why do you want to use Automapper for this? A simple clone would do the job for you.

Read more here: Deep cloning objects

Since you asked With Automapper? can I suggest you don't use AutoMapper?

Instead use MemberwiseClone() in a Clone method, e.g.

public class Person
{
public string FirstName { get; set; }
public string LastName { get; set; }


public Person Clone()
{
return (Person) MemberwiseClone();
}
}

UPDATE

Its important to note this does not acheive the original posters desire to copy person1 into person2

However, (and as @Jimmy Bogard points out) using MemberwiseClone() is preferred if you just need to make a copy (clone) of the object.

For instance, if you are doing this:

//I need a copy of person1 please! I'll make a new person object
//and automapper everything into it!
var person2 = new Person2();
Mapper.Map<Person, Person>(person1, person2)

then really you should/could use

//oh wait, i can just use this!
var person2 = person1.Clone()

As I understand the question, OP does not want to clone person2 into a new instance of Person, but is asking for how to copy the contents of person2 into an already existing instance (person1) of Person. There is an overload of AutoMapper's Mapper.Map method that does this for you:

Mapper.CreateMap<Person, Person>();
Mapper.Map<Person, Person>(person2, person1);
//This copies member content from person2 into the _existing_ person1 instance.

Note 1: @alexl's answer creates a new instance of Person. If you have other references to the instance that person1 points to, these will not get the (presumably) desired data update if you redirect the person1 variable to a new instance.

Note 2: You need to be aware of that the (recursive) copying depth depends on what mappings AutoMapper knows about at the moment of mapping!
If a member of the Person class is of say the class Brain and you additionally have done Mapper.CreateMap<Brain, Brain>(); before the copy data Mapper.Map<Person, Person>(person2, person1); call, then person1 will keep its current Brain instance but this Brain will receive the member values of person2's Brain instance. That is you have a deep copy.
But if AutoMapper does not have a Brain-Brain mapping before copying, then person1's Brain member will reference the same Brain instance as the one person2 references. That is you will get a shallow copy.
This applies recursively to all members, so you better make sure AutoMapper has mappings for member classes that you want to deep copy, and doesn't have mappings for member classes that you want to shallow copy.

An alternative to using AutoMapper would be to use an approach using reflection. (Note that the code in the link does a shallow copy!)

"Support for filling an existing object, instead of AutoMapper creating the destination object itself" was added in AutoMapper version 0.2.

In the current version of AutoMapper, you can't use the static AutoMapper.Mapper.Map method. Instead, initialize a new mapper like this:

var config = new MapperConfiguration(cfg =>
{
cfg.CreateMap<Person, Person>();
});


var mapper = new Mapper(config);


var clone = mapper.Map<Person>(person);

Usually, you want to register the mapper in the Startup.cs file for dependency injection and inject it in your business class:

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
var config = new MapperConfiguration(cfg =>
{
cfg.CreateMap<Person, Person>();
});


var mapper = new Mapper(config);


services.AddSingleton(mapper);


// ...
}

Important: Don't create or inject the mapper in your entity class!

Of course, you should prefer to use MemberwiseClone() in simple cases.