Dapper.NET Multimapping One-to-many mapping

Example

Let's look at a more complex example that contains a one-to-many relationship. Our query will now contain multiple rows containing duplicate data and we will need to handle this. We do this with a lookup in a closure.

The query changes slightly as do the example classes.

Id	Name	Born	CountryId	CountryName	BookId	BookName
1	Daniel Dennett	1942	1	United States of America	1	Brainstorms
1	Daniel Dennett	1942	1	United States of America	2	Elbow Room
2	Sam Harris	1967	1	United States of America	3	The Moral Landscape
2	Sam Harris	1967	1	United States of America	4	Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
3	Richard Dawkins	1941	2	United Kingdom	5	The Magic of Reality: How We Know What`s Really True
3	Richard Dawkins	1941	2	United Kingdom	6	An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist

public class Person
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public int Born { get; set; }
    public Country Residience { get; set; }
    public ICollection<Book> Books { get; set; }
}

public class Country
{
    public int CountryId { get; set; }
    public string CountryName { get; set; }
}

public class Book
{
    public int BookId { get; set; }
    public string BookName { get; set; }
}

The dictionaryremainingHorsemen will be populated with fully materialized instances of the person objects. For each row of the query result the mapped values of instances of the types defined in the lambda arguments are passed in and it is up to you how to handle this.

            var sql = @"SELECT 1 AS Id, 'Daniel Dennett' AS Name, 1942 AS Born, 1 AS CountryId, 'United States of America' AS CountryName, 1 AS BookId, 'Brainstorms' AS BookName
UNION ALL SELECT 1 AS Id, 'Daniel Dennett' AS Name, 1942 AS Born, 1 AS CountryId, 'United States of America' AS CountryName, 2 AS BookId, 'Elbow Room' AS BookName
UNION ALL SELECT 2 AS Id, 'Sam Harris' AS Name, 1967 AS Born, 1 AS CountryId,  'United States of America' AS CountryName, 3 AS BookId, 'The Moral Landscape' AS BookName
UNION ALL SELECT 2 AS Id, 'Sam Harris' AS Name, 1967 AS Born, 1 AS CountryId,  'United States of America' AS CountryName, 4 AS BookId, 'Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion' AS BookName
UNION ALL SELECT 3 AS Id, 'Richard Dawkins' AS Name, 1941 AS Born, 2 AS CountryId,  'United Kingdom' AS CountryName, 5 AS BookId, 'The Magic of Reality: How We Know What`s Really True' AS BookName
UNION ALL SELECT 3 AS Id, 'Richard Dawkins' AS Name, 1941 AS Born, 2 AS CountryId,  'United Kingdom' AS CountryName, 6 AS BookId, 'An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist' AS BookName";

var remainingHorsemen = new Dictionary<int, Person>();
connection.Query<Person, Country, Book, Person>(sql, (person, country, book) => {
    //person
    Person personEntity;
    //trip
    if (!remainingHorsemen.TryGetValue(person.Id, out personEntity))
    {
        remainingHorsemen.Add(person.Id, personEntity = person);
    }

    //country
    if(personEntity.Residience == null)
    {
        if (country == null)
        {
            country = new Country { CountryName = "" };
        }
        personEntity.Residience = country;
    }                    

    //books
    if(personEntity.Books == null)
    {
        personEntity.Books = new List<Book>();
    }

    if (book != null)
    {
        if (!personEntity.Books.Any(x => x.BookId == book.BookId))
        {
            personEntity.Books.Add(book);
        }
    }

    return personEntity;
}, 
splitOn: "CountryId,BookId");

Note how the splitOn argument is a comma delimited list of the first columns of the next type.