Re: [boost] Reflection library ?

From: Dean Michael Berris (mikhailberis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-12 09:01:00

On 5/12/07, remi.chateauneu_at_[hidden] <remi.chateauneu_at_[hidden]> 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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Dean Michael C. Berris
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