I am using mapstruct-spring-extensions and it is very convenient having to autowire only the generated ConversionServiceAdapter in my services. But I did not find in the tutorial how to combine the BeanUpdate mechanism with this.

Use-case: I want to have new method that would handle the mapping with ignored null fields when writing update methods for PATCH requests.

Is it even possible to achieve this? I assume I could autowire the generated mapper directly in the service with the method but I guess that kind of defeats the purpose of using ConversionServiceAdapter and having loose coupling. Am I missing something? Appreciate your insights and hopefully you can steer me in the right direction.