Simple inner join result with Dapper?

Question

I can't seem to find documentation or examples for my problem (been searching a while now). I think my problem is pretty straightforward, so here goes.

I have two tables. My primary table is called Persons and the secondary table is PersonEntries. For each person in Person table, i can have 0 or more entries in the PersonEntries table. Like this.

Table: Person
Id
Name

Table: PersonEntry
PersonId
CheckinTime
CheckoutTime

I have two objects like this

public class Person {
  public string Name;
  public List<PersonEntry> PersonEntries;
}

public class PersonEntry {
  public DateTime CheckinTime;
  public DateTime CheckoutTime;
}

If i was to get it from the database into my c# classes how would i do it? I can map a single table into my c# class and do it for each table, but then i'm left to match what entries maps to what person.

I've seen several examples of mapping ONE PersonEntry to ONE Person, the problem here is that i have a zero-to-many relation. My Person have a LIST of PersonEntry items.

Answer 1

You can do something like this (see https://www.tritac.com/blog/dappernet-by-example):

public class Shop {
  public int? Id {get;set;}
  public string Name {get;set;}
  public string Url {get;set;}
  public IList<Account> Accounts {get;set;}
}

public class Account {
  public int? Id {get;set;}
  public string Name {get;set;}
  public string Address {get;set;}
  public string Country {get;set;}
  public int ShopId {get;set;}
}

var lookup = new Dictionary<int, Shop>()
conn.Query<Shop, Account, Shop>(@"
                SELECT s.*, a.*
                FROM Shop s
                INNER JOIN Account a ON s.ShopId = a.ShopId                    
                ", (s, a) => {
                     Shop shop;
                     if (!lookup.TryGetValue(s.Id, out shop)) {
                         lookup.Add(s.Id, shop = s);
                     }
                     if (shop.Accounts == null) 
                         shop.Accounts = new List<Account>();
                     shop.Accounts.Add(a);
                     return shop;
                 }
                 ).AsQueryable();
var resultList = lookup.Values;