[jira] [Resolved] (MINIFICPP-1254) Introduce an optional implementation

["Adam Hunyadi (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MINIFICPP-1254?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Adam Hunyadi resolved MINIFICPP-1254.
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    Resolution: Delivered

> Introduce an optional implementation
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>
>                 Key: MINIFICPP-1254
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MINIFICPP-1254
>             Project: Apache NiFi MiNiFi C++
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 0.7.0
>            Reporter: Adam Hunyadi
>            Assignee: Adam Hunyadi
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 0.8.0
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>          Time Spent: 3h 50m
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> *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



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