Jean-Louis, Boost.Reflection handles multiple and virtual inheritance fine. The main difference between the approaches is that Boost.Reflection does not require any global structures. A basic example similar to yours would look something like: map<string, reflection> reflections; reflections["animal"].reflect<animal>() // doSomething's parameters are deduced automatically if possible. .function(&animal::doSomething, "doSomething") .data(&someData, "someData"); // etc. reflections["baboon"].reflect<baboon>() .constructor() // use the default constructor .constructor<int, const char*>() // provide a parameterized constructor .inherits<animal>("animal") .function(&baboon::someAnimalThing, "someAnimalThing"); reflection& baboon_reflection = reflections["baboon"]; instance_constructor baboon_factory = baboon_reflection.get_constructor(); instance baboon_instance = baboon_factory.create(); reflected_function<> someAnimalThing = baboon_reflection.get_function("someAnimalThing"); // Call someAnimalThing someAnimalThing(baboon_instance); reflected_function<int, const string&> doSomething = baboon_reflection.get_function("doSomething"); doSomething(baboon_instance, 5, "hello"); // etc. I wrote that from memory so some of the syntax may be off (I don't have enough time today to do more with it). The library interface is changing a bit over the next few weeks as I prepare to submit the Boost.Extension library (of which this is a part) for review. The code will be moving from the libs/reflection directory to the libs/extension directory, switching namespaces, etc. Jeremy On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Jean-Louis Leroy <jl@yorel.be> wrote:
Jeremy Pack wrote:
I'm working on Boost.Reflection - see http://boost-extension.blogspot.com. I gave a presentation on it at BoostCon this year.
Thanks. I have looked at the code in the svn repo (which I had not found when browsing the boost website).
Do you have an example of how it's used? Is it similar to my example? Can it cope with multiple or virtual inheritance? In your code I don't see where address adjustment is done...
Jean-Louis
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