Automapper ObservableCollection – refreshing is not working - automapper

Question

I have small WPF application. There are 5 projects in solution.
I want separate DOMAIN classes with UI ENTITIES and I want to use AUTOMAPPER.
You can download whole solution here: TestWPFAutomapper.zip
Domain class(Domain.Source.cs) with UI Entity(Entities.Destination.cs) have same signature.
In Entities.Destination.cs I would like to put other logic.
namespace DOMAIN
{
public class Source
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public int Position { get; set; }
}
}
using System.ComponentModel;
namespace ENITITIES
{
public class Destination : INotifyPropertyChanged
{
private int _id;
private int _position;
public int Id
{
get { return _id; }
set
{
_id = value;
OnPropertyChanged("Id");
}
}
public int Position
{
get { return _position; }
set
{
_position = value;
OnPropertyChanged("Position");
}
}
public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;
protected virtual void OnPropertyChanged(string propertyName)
{
PropertyChangedEventHandler handler = PropertyChanged;
if (handler != null) handler(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName));
}
}
}
My data comes from DAL.DataContext using Entity Framework with CodeFirst. Here I´m using Source class.
using System.Data.Entity;
using DOMAIN;
namespace DAL
{
public class DataContext : DbContext
{
public DbSet<Source> Sources { get; set; }
}
}
Mapping is in BL.MyAppLogic.cs . In this class I have property Items which is ObservableCollection.
After puting another item into DB for Source class collection get refresh but for Destination is not refreshing.
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
using System.Data.Entity;
using System.Linq;
using AutoMapper;
using DAL;
using DOMAIN;
using ENITITIES;
namespace BL
{
public class MyAppLogic
{
private readonly DataContext _dataContext = new DataContext();
public ObservableCollection<Source> Items { get; set; }
//public ObservableCollection<Destination> Items { get; set; }
public MyAppLogic()
{
Database.SetInitializer(new MyInitializer());
Mapping();
_dataContext.Sources.Load();
Items = _dataContext.Sources.Local;
//Items = Mapper.Map<ObservableCollection<Source>, ObservableCollection<Destination>>(_dataContext.Sources.Local);
}
private void Mapping()
{
Mapper.CreateMap<Source, Destination>().ReverseMap();
// I tried also Mapper.CreateMap<ObservableCollection<Source>, ObservableCollection<Destination>>().ReverseMap();
}
public int GetLastItem()
{
return _dataContext.Database.SqlQuery<int>("select Position from Sources").ToList().LastOrDefault();
}
public void AddNewItem(Destination newItem)
{
_dataContext.Sources.Add(Mapper.Map<Destination, Source>(newItem));
_dataContext.SaveChanges();
}
}
}
My problem is not with mapping, that’s works good, but with refreshing collection after adding or removing items from db. If I use DOMAIN.Source class everything works, collection is refreshing. But when I’m using ENTITIES.Destination data comes from DB and also I can put som new data to DB but refresing ObservableCollection is not working.
Please try to comment lines(14 & 23) in BL.MyAppLogic.cs and uncomment(15 & 24) and you’ll see what I mean.
Thank you for any help.

Answer 1

I got it but I don´t know if is correct.
Local has CollectionChanged event
so in constructor I put these lines
public MyAppLogic()
{
Database.SetInitializer(new MyInitializer());
Mapping();
_dataContext.Sources.Load();
_dataContext.Sources.Local.CollectionChanged += SourcesCollectionChanged;
Items = Mapper.Map<ObservableCollection<Source>, ObservableCollection<Destination>>(_dataContext.Sources.Local);
}
and handler looks
private void SourcesCollectionChanged(object sender, NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
var source = sender as ObservableCollection<Source>;
Mapper.Map(source, Items);
}
Now is my collection automating refreshing when I put something to DB in my UI.
Looks like automapper don´t put reference into Items, but create new instance.