Providing a Discriminated Union from an F# Type Provider

Question

I've gotten the basics of type providers such as creating a type

let thisAssembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly()
let t = ProvidedTypeDefinition(
           thisAssembly,namespaceName,
           xType.Attribute(xname "name").Value,
           baseType = Some typeof<obj>)

but I need to be able to define record types and DU types is there any way to do this with type providers?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, it's not possible to define any F# specific types like Discriminated Unions, Records, or Modules, in a type provider, only classes and namespaces, which is a bit unfortunate