Consider I have these classes in my Api model, because other actions may need customerData with different attributes I hide base properties like this:
public class CustomerData
{
public string Name { get; set; }
public string PublicKey { get; set; }
}
and this class:
public class AddCustomerInput:CustomerData
{
[Required]
public new string Name { get; set; }
[Required]
public new string PublicKey { get; set; }
}
these two models are in Api level and I have another model in domain level:
public class ExternalCustomerData
{
public new string CustomerName{ get; set; }
public new string PublicKey { get; set; }
}
as you can see name here is customerName, also these models are big with different names in api and domain model names but I shortened the models,
also I have this extension method to convert types:
public static ExternalCustomerData ToExternalCustomerData(this CustomerData customerData)
{
//All properties with same property names convert correctly
var externalCustomerData =customerData.ConvertTo<ExternalCustomerData>();
//but the result of customerData.Name is null
externalCustomerData .CustomerName= customerData.Name ;
return externalCustomerData ;
}
when I use this extension method for AddCustomerInput:
addCustomerInputObject.ToExternalCustomerData();
I see All properties with same property names convert correctly but this line:
externalCustomerData .CustomerName= customerData.Name
is null. I was wondering what is the reason servicestack cast this parent object to child correcly, how can I achieve change in name? I want to know is it possible to get the result with servicestack.text convertTo? If not is there any good solution for doing this?
*I know i can have
public static ExternalCustomerData ToExternalCustomerData(this AddCustomerInput customerData)
{
}
and it works fine but I have many apiInput models which all of them inherit from CustomerData and I should have many extension methods.
