Support for third party wrapper types

[mwojtul]

Really convenient library, thanks for creating it.

I'm wondering if it'd be possible to use an optional wrapper type other than the one provided by the library. I'm using Facet and its GenerateDtos functionality for source generating CRUD DTOs. The patch DTO it generates is suitable for an optional patch style operation:

public record PersonPatch
{
    public global::Facet.Optional<string> Name { get; set; }
    public global::Facet.Optional<string?> Nickname { get; set; }
}

But the issue is that it uses its own Optional wrapper, so as is I don't think it's possible to make it work with OptionalValues.

[desjoerd]

I think I can only do this with a source generator to support this. I will think about it, but it's quite a bit of work to support this.

[mwojtul]

Yeah, it may not be worth it then, and is probably somewhat niche to begin with.

[desjoerd]

I will keep this open because I do like the idea. Especially as there are quite a few packages providing an Option<> type. And the main reason why I created this package is to support Option<> types in the different libraries, not the type itself.