how to map processor to dto

Question

I am building a MealPlanner application which builds up a menu of meals based on user preferences, and I need some guidance to set 2 fields in DTO (field names: preferenceType, resultState).

Structure of Entity (named Meal):

class Meal {
    String itemName; //Such as Pizza, Sandwich
    double portion; //such as 1.5
    double cost; //such as 15.5, default currency is dollars
}

Structure of DTO:

class MealDTO {

    //Identical to Meal
    String itemName;
    double portion;
    double cost;

    //Additional fields in DTO
    String preferenceType; //FAT FREE, DAIRY FREE, VEGETARIAN
    String resultState; //OPTIMAL, FEASIBLE, INFEASIBLE
}

Class to map values between the two classes:

public class FieldsMapper {

    // MealDTO -> Meal
    public Meal MealDtoToMeal(MealDTO mealDto) {
        Meal meal = new Meal();
        meal.setItemName(mealDto.getItemName());
        return meal;
    }

    //Meal -> MealDTO
    public MealDTO MealToMealDto(Meal meal) {
        MealDTO mealDto = new MealDTO();
        mealDto.setItemName(meal.getItemName());
        mealDto.setPortion(meal.getPortion());
        mealDto.setCost(meal.getCost());
        return mealDto;
    }
}

Please click here: MealPlanner full flow

This way, the values of preferenceType and cost are lost. How do I map preferenceType, resultState to the DTO?

(NOTE: Meal Planner flow as steps

1. Map user request(contains only itemName) to MealDTO (other fields except itemName are empty).
2. Map MealDTO to Meal using FieldsMapper.
3. Pass Meal to third party, black box logic. This logic will return a map with the structure {<portion, 2>, <cost, 14>, <preferenceType, VEGETARIAN>, <resultState, OPTIMAL> }
4. The portion and cost are mapped to Meal entity fields portion, cost.
5. Map Meal to MealDTO and return the DTO object.)

Answer 1

Firstly, I think you should use enums instead of String for your resultState and preferenceType fields as they have fixed values.

What I think you should do is create another DTO which contains the MealDTO and the resultState and preferenceType fields e.g UserMealDTO. So something like:

class UserMealDTO {
    MealDTO meal;
    MealPreference preferenceType;
    ResultState resultState; 
}

// Enums 

public enum MealPreference {
    FAT FREE, DAIRY FREE, VEGETARIAN;
}

public enum ResultState {
    OPTIMAL, FEASIBLE, INFEASIBLE;
}