如何处理可能为null的嵌套NPoco对象？

Question

I am using NPoco for object mapping from my database. I have the following entities:

public abstract class NamedEntity
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

public class Person : NamedEntity
{
    public Office Office { get; set; }
}

public class Office : NamedEntity
{
    public Address Address { get; set; }
    public Organisation ParentOrganisation { get; set; }
}

public class Address
{
     public string AddressLine1 { get; set; }
}

public class Organisation : NamedEntity
{
}

and I am retrieving the objects using NPoco in my repository:

var people = Context.Fetch<Person, Office, Address, Organisation>(sql);

This is working fine, except for the case where a Person does not have an Office , in which case result of the LEFT JOIN in the sql query returns null for the Office, Address and Organisation columns.

In this situation, an unhandled exception is thrown in NPoco:

System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: 
Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. 
---> System.NullReferenceException: 
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at poco_automapper(Person , Office , Address , Organisation )
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeMethod(Object target, Object[] arguments, Signature sig, Boolean constructor)
at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.UnsafeInvokeInternal(Object obj, Object[] parameters, Object[] arguments)
at System.Delegate.DynamicInvokeImpl(Object[] args)
at NPoco.MultiPocoFactory.CallCallback[TRet](Delegate callback, IDataReader dr, Int32 count)
at NPoco.MultiPocoFactory.<>c__DisplayClassa`1.<CreateMultiPocoFactory>b__9(IDataReader reader, Delegate arg3)
at NPoco.Database.<Query>d__14`1.MoveNext()

Is there a way to handle this situation? Or will I have to resort to a flattened object, or separate database calls?

Answer 1

This has been fixed in NPoco 2.2.40.
Thanks for reporting it.

Answer 2

Try creating a constructor to initialize objects:

public abstract class NamedEntity
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

public class Person : NamedEntity
{
    public Person()
    {
        Office = new Office();
    }
    public Office Office { get; set; }
}

public class Office : NamedEntity
{
    public Office()
    {
        Address = new Address();
        ParentOrganisation = new Organisation();
    }
    public Address Address { get; set; }
    public Organisation ParentOrganisation { get; set; }
}

public class Address
{
    public string AddressLine1 { get; set; }
}

public class Organisation : NamedEntity
{
}