Dapper building parameter list

Question

I have this class:

public class Parameters
{
    public string UserId {get;set;}
    public string OrgId {get;set;}
    public string Roles {get;set;}
}

It gets deserialised from a JSON string. So some of the properties are null .

What are the best ways to build up the params list to pass to Dapper.

At the moment my logic for building up the params string to tag on the end of the SQL statement goes like this :

var parameters = string.Empty;
var parametersObj = new { };
if (query.Parameters != null)
{
    if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(query.Parameters.UserId))
    {
        parameters = string.Format("{0} UserId = @UserId", parameters);
        // parametersObj.UserId = 
    }

    if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(query.Parameters.OrganisationIdentifier))
    {
        parameters = string.Format("{0}, OrganisationIdentifier = @OrganisationIdentifier", parameters);
    }

    if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(query.Parameters.Roles))
    {
        parameters = string.Format("{0}, Roles = @Roles", parameters);
    }
}

var sqlString = string.Format("exec {0} {1}", query.DbObjectName, parameters);

conn.QueryAsync<dynamic>(sqlString, )

As you can see with the parametersObj I was going with the JavaScript way of dynamically building an object. If I did do this with dynamic instead of an object - will it still work?

example:

var parameters = string.Empty;
dynamic parametersObj = new { };
if (query.Parameters != null)
{
    if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(query.Parameters.UserId))
    {
        parameters = string.Format("{0} UserId = @UserId", parameters);
        parametersObj.UserId = query.Parameters.UserId;
    }

    if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(query.Parameters.OrganisationIdentifier))
    {
        parameters = string.Format("{0} OrganisationIdentifier = @OrganisationIdentifier ", parameters);
        parametersObj.OrganisationIdentifier= query.Parameters.OrganisationIdentifier;
    }

    if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(query.Parameters.Roles))
    {
        parameters = string.Format("{0} Roles = @Roles", parameters);
        parametersObj.Roles= query.Parameters.Roles;
    }
}

var sqlString = string.Format("exec {0} {1}", query.DbObjectName, parameters);

conn.QueryAsync<dynamic>(sqlString, parametersObj);

Answer 1

I think the second example will work when you change

dynamic parametersObj = new {};

to

dynamic parametersObj = new ExpandoObject();

and the query to

conn.QueryAsync(sqlString, new 
{
    UserId = parametersObj.UserId,
    ...
};

NOTE: filling in the dynamic object like

conn.QueryAsync(sqlString, parametersObj);

will raise the error

Extension methods cannot be dynamically dispatched

Answer 2

You don't need to do anything: just pass your object as the parameters . Dapper will only pass in properties/parameters that it can identify in the query... and even if it passed them all in: it understands null.

The object is fine.

...QueryAsync(sql, query.Parameters)...