Is it possible to map multiple DTO objects to a single ViewModel using Automapper?

Question

Hello, I was wondering if it is possible to map multiple DTO objects to a single ViewModel object using Automapper?

Essentially, I have multiple DTO objects and would like to display information from each on a single screen in ASP.NET MVC 2.0. To do so I would like to flatten the DTO objects (or parts of them...) into the Viewmodel and pass said viewmodel to the view. If I had one DTO this would be easy, but I've never seen it being done with multiple. Obviously there are a number of roundabout ways to do this (outside of automapper), but this is the approach that I would like to take if possible.

Thanks in advance,

JP

Answer 1

You could create a composite DTO that holds two or more DTO objects and map the composite DTO to the output view model.