[Boost-users] Boilerplate generated code

4 Sep 2010


      I have a class that mostly remains the same except for the variables and 
functions to retrieve the variables.  I've looked at boost preprocessor 
and it seems more designed to create classes that have a fixed number of 
variables but different defaults.  Could any of the boost libraries turn 
the included class into boilerplate code that allows an arbitrary number 
of variables?  The example below only has three variables but I could 
have used any number.

Ryan


//Minimal detail.  Not complete class
struct Arguments {
  Arguments(void) {
    xxx = false;
    yyy = 3;
    zzz = 4530;
  }

  bool operator== (Arugments const& rhs) {
    return (
      (xxx  == rhs.xxx) &&
      (yyy  == rhs.yyy) &&
      (zzz  == rhs.zzz));
  }

  bool  getXXX(void) const { return xxx; }
  int   getYYY(void) const { return yyy; }
  long  getZZZ(void) const { return zzz; }

  bool  xxx;
  int   yyy;
  long  zzz;
};

//Would like to be able to call it instead something like this
Create(
  Arguments,  //Class name
  ((bool, xxx, getXXX, false),
   (int,  yyy, getYYY, 3),
   (long, zzz, getZZZ, 4530)));

[Boost-users] Boilerplate generated code

Ryan McConnehey