I'm trying to use the Multi-mapping feature of dapper to return a list of Album and associated Artist and Genre.
public class Artist
{
public virtual int ArtistId { get; set; }
public virtual string Name { get; set; }
}
public class Genre
{
public virtual int GenreId { get; set; }
public virtual string Name { get; set; }
public virtual string Description { get; set; }
}
public class Album
{
public virtual int AlbumId { get; set; }
public virtual int GenreId { get; set; }
public virtual int ArtistId { get; set; }
public virtual string Title { get; set; }
public virtual decimal Price { get; set; }
public virtual string AlbumArtUrl { get; set; }
public virtual Genre Genre { get; set; }
public virtual Artist Artist { get; set; }
}
var query = @"SELECT AL.Title, AL.Price, AL.AlbumArtUrl, GE.Name, GE.[Description], AR.Name FROM Album AL INNER JOIN Genre GE ON AL.GenreId = GE.GenreId INNER JOIN Artist AR ON AL.ArtistId = AL.ArtistId";
var res = connection.Query<Album, Genre, Artist, Album>(query, (album, genre, artist) => { album.Genre = genre; album.Artist = artist; return album; }, commandType: CommandType.Text, splitOn: "ArtistId, GenreId");
I have checked for solution regarding this, non of it worked. Can anyone please let me know where I have gone wrong?
Thanks @Alex :) But I am still struck. This is what I have done:
CREATE TABLE Artist
(
ArtistId INT PRIMARY KEY IDENTITY(1,1)
,Name VARCHAR(50)
)
CREATE TABLE Genre
(
GenreId INT PRIMARY KEY IDENTITY(1,1)
,Name VARCHAR(20)
,[Description] VARCHAR(1000)
)
CREATE TABLE Album
(
AlbumId INT PRIMARY KEY IDENTITY(1,1)
,GenreId INT FOREIGN KEY REFERENCES Genre(GenreId)
,ArtistId INT FOREIGN KEY REFERENCES Artist(ArtistId)
,Title VARCHAR(100)
,Price FLOAT
,AlbumArtUrl VARCHAR(300)
)
INSERT INTO Artist(Name) VALUES ('Jayant')
INSERT INTO Genre(Name,[Description]) VALUES ('Rock','Originally created during school days. The year was.....I guess 1998')
DECLARE @gen_id INT
,@art_id INT
SET @gen_id = (SELECT MAX(GenreId) FROM Genre)
SET @art_id = (SELECT MAX(ArtistId) FROM Artist)
INSERT INTO Album(GenreId,ArtistId,Title,Price,AlbumArtUrl) VALUES (@gen_id,@art_id,'I go mad for you',200,'http://asha4u.com/IGoMad')
As suggested by you I changed the query to:
var query = @"SELECT AL.AlbumId, AL.Title, AL.Price, AL.AlbumArtUrl, GE.GenreId, GE.Name, GE.Description, AR.ArtistId, AR.Name FROM Album AL INNER JOIN Artist AR ON AR.ArtistId = AL.ArtistId INNER JOIN Genre GE ON GE.GenreId = AL.GenreId";
var res = connection.Query<Album, Genre, Artist, Album>(query, (album, genre, artist) => { album.Genre = genre; album.Artist = artist; return album; }, commandType: CommandType.Text, splitOn: "GenreId, ArtistId");
Now I am using splitOn for GenreId and ArtistId. I still get the same error. Please help.
You need to include the column you'd want to split on in your select query. Yours just selects all the other properties - so Dapper
doesn't find a matching column to split the objects.
Your query should probably be something like that:
var query = @"SELECT AlbumId, Title, Price, AlbumArtUrl, GenreId, Name, Description , ArtistId, Name ......" etc
Sam wrote an excellent answer for multi mappings and the splitOn option: https://stackoverflow.com/a/7478958/1028323
Edit: If your query is as mentioned above, you'll have to split on GenreId and ArtistId.
AlbumId, Title, Price, AlbumArtUrl | GenreId, Name, Description | ArtistId, Name
The pipes are for the start of a new POCO you're trying to map. So the SplitOn
parameters would be GenreId and ArtistId.
Edit2: The problem is your POCO Album
. You specify ArtistId
and GenreId
as properties but they basically belong to their respective POCO's
.
public class Album
{
public virtual int AlbumId { get; set; }
public virtual string Title { get; set; }
public virtual decimal Price { get; set; }
public virtual string AlbumArtUrl { get; set; }
public virtual Genre Genre { get; set; }
public virtual Artist Artist { get; set; }
}
and
var sql = @"SELECT AL.AlbumId
, AL.Title
, AL.Price
, AL.AlbumArtUrl
, GE.GenreId
, GE.Name
, GE.Description
, AR.ArtistId
, AR.Name
FROM Album AL
INNER JOIN Artist AR ON AR.ArtistId = AL.ArtistId
INNER JOIN Genre GE ON GE.GenreId = AL.GenreId";
using (var conn = connFactory.OpenConnection())
{
var res = conn.Query<Album, Genre, Artist, Album>(sql, (album, genre, artist) =>
{
album.Genre = genre;
album.Artist = artist;
return album;
}, splitOn: "GenreId,ArtistId");
}
should do the trick. You don't need GenreId
and ArtistId
anyway because you have a reference to those objects in Albums
.