Re: Reminder: Describe needs a review manager

From: Richard Hodges (hodges.r_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-02-24 16:10:59

On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 at 19:56, Peter Dimov via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> This is a reminder that my library Describe
>
>     https://github.com/pdimov/describe
>     https://pdimov.github.io/describe/doc/html/describe.html
>
> needs a review manager.
>
> Describe is a library that allows programmers to annotate their classes
> (and
> enumerations) in order to enable simple reflection. It provides a very
> important fundament on which other libraries can build upon to provide
> automatic support for user-defined types.
>
> For example, given an annotated type, Boost.JSON can automatically provide
> conversions from/to json::value. Boost.ContainerHash can automatically
> provide a hash function hash_value for the type. Boost.Serialization can
> automatically provide serialization support. See the examples:
>
> https://pdimov.github.io/describe/doc/html/describe.html#example_to_json
> https://pdimov.github.io/describe/doc/html/describe.html#example_from_json
>
> https://pdimov.github.io/describe/doc/html/describe.html#example_serialization
>
> Other JSON (and serialization) libraries already offer a similar
> mechanism,
> e.g. https://github.com/nlohmann/json#arbitrary-types-conversions. But
> since
> each library has its own private way to annotate types, a programmer needs
> to repeat the type annotations for every library he wants his type to be
> known to. This is unnecessary and undesirable, and a standard mechanism to
> describe types avoids it.
>
> Describe is intended to be this standard mechanism, and I believe that we
> need it in Boost sooner rather than later.
>

I can identify a number of cases where this library would be useful for me.

The easy implementation of serialisation being a major one.

I'd be happy to propose myself to manage the review.

>
> Thanks in advance to whoever volunteers.
>
>
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