There is currently an SoC project involving reflection, being done by Mariano Consoni. You may want to contact him. On 5/12/07, Dean Michael Berris <mikhailberis@gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/12/07, remi.chateauneu@gmx.de <remi.chateauneu@gmx.de> wrote:
This library does not specifically aim at serialization, but more generally at providing for a given class, the list of its members. Given such a list - a kind of tuple - it is possible to apply algorithms which basically iterates over the members of this class. For example:
Hmmm... I distinctly remember Joel de Guzman having something like this made part of Fusion -- which allows you to create aggregate types where you can iterate over the elements of the type. That required some preprocessor programming, which was called BOOST_FUSION_STRUCT (or something similar) instead of just the normal "struct".
How is this different?
Most of these features are implemented and running. It is designed to add more 'plugins' of this type - and of course Boost.Serialization is worth trying. A class can have as many members list as needed, and does not have to be changed because the members lists are different objects. The need came out of applications with dozens of business classes, where the database persistence routines had to be re-written all the time.
Have you seen how Soci (http://soci.sourceforge.net/) does it for the SQL/DB stuff?
Do you have more readable documentation about the library?
Unfortunately not for the moment, although the code is short (1100 lines in four files, without test programs) and well-documented, with examples.
I personally would like to see a writeup with a clear statement of the rationale and what it's intended to do.
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