I'd like to create a dto that has a collection of reference id's to the object that is stored in a collection in the entity. As illustrated below:
public class MainEntity{
public int Id {get;set;}
public ICollection<OtherEntity> Others {get;set;}
}
public class OtherEntity {
public int Id {get;set;}
// a whole bunch of other properties I can get by reference if I need.
}
What I'd like to accomplish is:
public class MainDto {
public int Id {get;set}
public ICollection<int> Others {get;set;}
/* in this case, the property Others
would be a reference to the Other entity Ids in the list */
}
I've played with this for awhile, and every time I think I'm getting somewhere, something collapses. Any help is appreciated.