help with asp.net automapper : SOLVED

[Cheshire]

hey guys, after fighting with this thing for a few hours, reading all the documentation and still not figuring this out, I figured why not throw this out here to my favorite forum, and who knows maybe someone can help me...

I am trying to map an object to a dto that contains only some of it's fields. It's an inherited type, so I even created the same hierarchy for the Dto. I'm not sure where I'm going wrong.

I downloaded the nuget packages.

I added this mapper profile:

namespace API.helpers
{
    public class AutomapperProfiles : Profile
    {
     
     public AutomapperProfiles()
     {
        CreateMap<User,BaseUserDto>()
        .Include<Customer,CustomerDto>();

        CreateMap<Customer,CustomerDto>();

     
     }  
    }
}

referenced it in startup:

services.AddAutoMapper(typeof(AutomapperProfiles).Assembly);

injected it and used it in the controller:

[HttpGet("Customer/{username}")]
        public async Task<ActionResult<CustomerDto>> GetCustomer(string username)
        {
            var cust =  await _uow.customers.GetCustomerAsync(username);
           
            var custDto = _mapper.Map<CustomerDto>(cust);

            return custDto;
        }

and when I call that endpoint I get this mess:

{"statusCode":500,"errorMessage":"Missing type map configuration or unsupported mapping.\r\n\r\nMapping types:\r\nActionResult\u00601 -\u003E CustomerDto\r\nMicrosoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ActionResult\u00601[[API.Data.Model.Customer, API, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null]] -\u003E API.Data.DTOs.CustomerDto","details":"   at lambda_method104(Closure , Object , CustomerDto , ResolutionContext )\r\n   at PetShop.PetShopBackend.API.Controllers.AccountController.GetCustomer(String username) in C:\\Users\\johnDoe\\OneDrive\\Desktop\\MyAngularThing\\PetShop\\PetShopBackend\\API\\Controllers\\AccountController.cs:line 110\r\n   at lambda_method19(Closure , Object )\r\n   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ActionMethodExecutor.AwaitableObjectResultExecutor.Execute(IActionResultTypeMapper mapper, ObjectMethodExecutor executor, Object controller, Object[] arguments)\r\n   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ControllerActionInvoker.\u003CInvokeActionMethodAsync\u003Eg__Awaited|12_0(ControllerActionInvoker invoker, ValueTask\u00601 actionResultValueTask)\r\n   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ControllerActionInvoker.\u003CInvokeNextActionFilterAsync\u003Eg__Awaited|10_0(ControllerActionInvoker invoker, Task lastTask, State next, Scope scope, Object state, Boolean isCompleted)\r\n   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ControllerActionInvoker.Rethrow(ActionExecutedContextSealed context)\r\n   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ControllerActionInvoker.Next(State\u0026 next, Scope\u0026 scope, Object\u0026 state, Boolean\u0026 isCompleted)\r\n   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeInnerFilterAsync()\r\n--- End of stack trace from previous location ---\r\n   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ResourceInvoker.\u003CInvokeFilterPipelineAsync\u003Eg__Awaited|19_0(ResourceInvoker invoker, Task lastTask, State next, Scope scope, Object state, Boolean isCompleted)\r\n   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ResourceInvoker.\u003CInvokeAsync\u003Eg__Logged|17_1(ResourceInvoker invoker)\r\n   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.EndpointMiddleware.\u003CInvoke\u003Eg__AwaitRequestTask|6_0(Endpoint endpoint, Task requestTask, ILogger logger)\r\n   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authorization.AuthorizationMiddleware.Invoke(HttpContext context)\r\n   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.AuthenticationMiddleware.Invoke(HttpContext context)\r\n   at Swashbuckle.AspNetCore.SwaggerUI.SwaggerUIMiddleware.Invoke(HttpContext httpContext)\r\n   at Swashbuckle.AspNetCore.Swagger.SwaggerMiddleware.Invoke(HttpContext httpContext, ISwaggerProvider swaggerProvider)\r\n   at API.Middleware.ExceptionMiddleware.InvokeAsync(HttpContext context) in C:\\Users\\johnDoe\\OneDrive\\Desktop\\MyAngularThing\\PetShop\\PetShopBackend\\API\\Middleware\\ExceptionMiddleware.cs:line 42"}

here are my classes:

    public abstract class User
    {
        public int Id {get;set;}

        public string FirstName {get;set;}
        public string LastName {get;set;}

        public string UserName { get; set; }

        public byte[] hash { get; set; }

        public byte[] salt { get; set; }

        public string Email {get;set;}

        public Photo Avatar { get; set;}
        public string UserType { get; internal set; }
    }
}


    public class Customer : User
    {

        public string CreditInfo { get; set; }
     
        public DeliveryAdress Adress {get;set;}

         public ICollection<Order> Orders {get;set;}

     
    }

and my Dtos:

 public class BaseUserDto
    {
       
         public int Id {get;set;}

        public string FirstName {get;set;}
        public string LastName {get;set;}

        public string UserName { get; set; }

     
        public string Email {get;set;}

        public Photo Avatar { get; set;}
    }

    public class CustomerDto : BaseUserDto
    {

        public string CreditInfo { get; set; }
     
        public DeliveryAdress Adress {get;set;}

         public ICollection<Order> Orders {get;set;}
    }

if anyone reads this wall of code and can help me I will be forever grateful. (or at least for a nice while... lets not get carried away....)



edit:

so, I figured it out... just had to unwrap the actionResult before trying to use the automapper on it...

don't know if there is any reason not to delete this thread....