Examples
cooking with Orika

Example #1

In this first example, we try to demonstrate mapping some mismatched fields

public class Person {
  private Name name;
  private List<Name> knownAliases;
  private Date birthDate;
  
  public Person(Name name, Date birthDate, 
        List<Name> knownAliases) {
    this.name = name;
    this.birthDate = birthDate.clone();
    this.knownAliases = new ArrayList<Name>(knownAliases);
  }
  public List<Name> getKnownAliases() {
    return Collections.unmodifiableList(knownAliases);
  }
  public Name getName() {
    return name;
  }
  public Date getBirthDate() {
    return birthDate.clone();
  } 
}

public class Name {
  private String first;
  private String last;
  
  public Name(String first, String last) {
    this.first = first;
    this.last = last;
  }
  public String getFirst() {
    return first;
  }
  public String getLast() {
    return last;
  }
}

public class PersonDto {
  private String firstName;
  private String lastName;
  private Date birthDate;
  private String[][] aliases;
  
  public String getFirstName() {
    return firstName;
  }
  public String getLastName() {
    return lastName;
  }
  public Date getBirthDate() {
    return birthDate;
  }
  public String[][] getAliases() {
    return aliases;
  }
  public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
    this.firstName = firstName;
  }
  public void setLastName(String lastName) {
    this.lastName = lastName;
  }
  public void setBirthDate(Date birthDate) {
    this.birthDate = birthDate;
  }
  public void setAliases(String[][] aliases) {
    this.aliases = aliases;
  }
}

Let’s assume that we’d like to map Person to PersonDto (and vice-versa); there are a few interesting points about these two classes. First, Person has a ‘name’ property which is of type Name, while PersonDto contains the name data in two string fields ‘firstName’ and ‘lastName’.
Also, the ‘knownAliases’ property of Person is actually stored in a multi-dimensional array in PersonDto, with the first name in index 0 of the second dimension, and the last name in index 1 of the second dimension.

Below, we’ll demonstrate how to configure Orika to map these classes; we’ll use our own custom extension of ConfigurableMapper, like so:

public class Mapper extends ConfigurableMapper {
  protected void configure(MapperFactory factory) {
    factory.classMap(Person.class, PersonDto.class)
      .field("name.first", "firstName")
      .field("name.last", "lastName")
      .field("knownAliases{first}", "aliases{[0]}")
      .field("knownAliases{last}", "aliases{[1]}")
      .byDefault()
      .register();      
  }
}