[MINIFICPP-1254] Introduce an optional implementation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Delivered
• Affects Version/s: 0.7.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.0
• Assignee: Adam Hunyadi
• Reporter: Adam Hunyadi
• Created: 12/Jun/20 07:50
• Updated: 21/Jan/21 15:49
• Resolved: 26/Jun/20 12:01

Description

Background:

The MiNiFi project is currently lacking an optional class.

Proposal:

As optional is an important tool for development we decided to port the boost implementation which is to be replaced once we upgrade MiNiFi to be c++17 compatible.

Update:

Boost::optional seems to be too big of a library, with all its dependencies it ended up taking up 13M. As an alternate solution the proposal is to use this alternative:

https://github.com/martinmoene/optional-lite