Any ability to define global mapper and use it implicitly?

[linarkou]

• Is this an issue (and hence not a question)?

Hi! I'm new to MapStruct, before I've used ModelMapper, and it has ability to register global converter between types (ex. LocalDate -> Date). Then in any other converter it will implicitly use this converter for converting LocalDate to Date.

In MapStruct I only found @Mapper#uses() for reusing converter, but I need to add it explicitly into all converters. So does there any way to add global converter and use it implicitly?

Actually I want to write converter from java DateTime API to google.protobuf.Timestamp timestamp.proto. And then implicitly reuse it in mappings between date/time fields.

[chris922]

Hey @linarkou ,

questions shouldn't be asked here in issues, take a look at the MapStruct webpage to see how you can get help, e. g. stackoverflow with the mapstruct tag.

Anyway regarding your question: You can find the global configuration options here: https://mapstruct.org/documentation/stable/reference/html/#configuration-options
Unfortunately there is no way to define a global mapper, what you could do is defining a shared mapper configuration (see here) and reference this in your mappers

[linarkou]

Excuse me, @chris922 , and thanks!