Dapper Tutorial Dapper - Multi-Type Result

Description

One of the features of Dapper is its ability to map columns from a query result to properties of a different type and you can call it a "multi-type" result.

  • You can use the ExecuteReader method which can be called from any object of type IDbConnection.
  • It can execute a query and map the result to a list of different types.
  • It is useful when you want to combine the data from multiple rows into a single object.
  • For example, if you have a query that returns a list of store invoices and web invoices, you can use a multi-type result feature to map each kind of invoice to the Invoice object.

The following example shows how to use the ExecuteReader method and get the multi-type result.

string sql = "SELECT * FROM Invoice;";

using (var connection = My.ConnectionFactory())
{
    connection.Open();

    var invoices = new List<Invoice>();

    using (var reader = connection.ExecuteReader(sql))
    {
        var storeInvoiceParser = reader.GetRowParser<StoreInvoice>();
        var webInvoiceParser = reader.GetRowParser<WebInvoice>();

        while (reader.Read())
        {
            Invoice invoice;

            switch ((InvoiceKind) reader.GetInt32(reader.GetOrdinal("Kind")))
            {
                case InvoiceKind.StoreInvoice:
                    invoice = storeInvoiceParser(reader);
                    break;
                case InvoiceKind.WebInvoice:
                    invoice = webInvoiceParser(reader);
                    break;
                default:
                    throw new Exception(ExceptionMessage.GeneralException);
            }

            invoices.Add(invoice);
        }
    }
}

In the above example, both store invoices and web invoices are mapped to the List<Invoice>.



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