Slick 3.1.1 warning when using nullable foreign key

Today while I was working with Slick I stumbled onto a deprecation warning and had a short adventure through the documentation trying to figure out how to remove said warning and do what I was doing the right way.

The warning itself was like this:

[warn] /Path/To/Thing.scala:37: method columnToOptionColumn in trait API is deprecated: Use an explicit conversion to an Option column with `.?`
[warn]     lazy val defaultUnitIdFk = foreignKey("fk_my_exciting_fk_constraintname", defaultUnitId, UnitTable.Unit)(u => u.unitId, onUpdate = ForeignKeyAction.SetNull, onDelete = ForeignKeyAction.SetNull)
[warn]  

Where the defaultUnitId column was defined as

val defaultUnitId: Rep[Option[Int]] = column[Option[Int]]("default_unit_id", O.Default(None))

in a Table class, and the foreign key this column pointed to was in another Table that had the id defined as

 val unitId: Rep[Int] = column[Int]("unit_id", O.AutoInc, O.PrimaryKey)

Hindsight is twenty twent, so of course looking at this now I realize the difference between the two types and why the implicit was being called. However, it didn't click for me until I saw the definition of the foreignKey method here. You'll note the types of the inputs, namely that the sourceColumns: P and targetColumns: (TT) ⇒ P. The reason the implicit was being called was because my P was Rep[Option[Int]] but the Table that the unitId was defined in was Rep[Int]. Obvious right?

So, how do you fix this? Simple, call the .? explicitly like so:

lazy val defaultUnitIdFk = foreignKey("fk_my_exciting_fk_constraintname", defaultUnitId, UnitTable.Unit)(u => u.unitId.?, onUpdate = ForeignKeyAction.SetNull, onDelete = ForeignKeyAction.SetNull)

Where the only change is u => u.unitId.? instead of u => u.unitId.

While this may seem obvious having just had it explained, if all you have to go on is the ^ in the warning from sbt pointing to the end of the statement. It's hard to determine what in that statement was the source of the problem that caused an implicit. So I hope this helps people out there who stumble on the same issue.