Units without values

[rick-palmsens]

For our project we need to store unit information without actually storing a value.
Is this library capable of doing such things, or does there always have to be a value?

For example, I want to store the unit MicroAmpere.
I've been looking at QuantityInfo and UnitInfo, but I'm not entirely sure how to create something like that.

[tmilnthorp]

UnitsNet.Units.ElectricCurrentUnit.Microampere is an enum. Could you just store a List<System.Enum>?

[rick-palmsens]

I'd like more type safety than just System.Enum 😅
How would I even turn it into something that knows that the SI unit is ampere and that the prefix is micro?

[tmilnthorp]

Unfortunately you don't have much choice 👎

A List<(UnitsNet.QuantityInfo, Enum)> would certainly be better:

var units = new List<(UnitsNet.QuantityInfo, Enum)>();
units.Add( (UnitsNet.ElectricCurrent.Info, UnitsNet.Units.ElectricCurrentUnit.Microampere) );

var (info, unit) = units.First();

var inBase = UnitsNet.Quantity.FromQuantityInfo( info, 1.0 );
var inOriginalUnits = inBase.As( unit );