On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Alec Chapman <archapm@fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
struct Employee { int id, string name };
Then defining a default view might go something like this:
template<> View default_view(Employee& e) { View v; v.set_layout(vertical_list); //accepts certain predefined layouts or an arbitrary function v << employee.id; //add the first subview; this calls default_view<int> v.add_sub_view(default_view(employee.name)); //the previous line could equivalently be written like this return v; }
// declare the class typedef property<employee_id_t, int, property<employee_name_t, string,
Employee;
// create and populate Employee employee; put(employee_id, employee, 999); employee[employee_name] = "Joe Smith"; //alternate syntax
Maybe use Boost.Fusion? It can create parallel descriptions of structs. But note also that you need more Model information - both per-field info (min/max/default on some ints, etc), as well as relationships between types (this is invalid when that is 0, etc). Tony