Re: [Boost-users] Dynamically creating classed by name?

From: Wu Yinghui, Freddie (yhwu_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-29 21:17:54

> Note that a component of the serialization library "extended_type_info" 
addresses
> this issue (as it must) in order to de-serialize pointers.  You might look 
in
> the serialization documentation.
>
> Robert Ramey

Frankly speaking, I've been researching on this topic as well. Most of the current libraries (e.g. Reflex) uses external programs/scripts to general the "stub" program for reflection support. This is not acceptable for our current environment.

Boost.Serialization was a very good candidate, though a little bit difficult to use--It provides the necessary support all under the hood of C++ and C++ alone. Nonetheless, though I've inspected "extended_type_info" reference in the manual a number of times, I'm sorry that I cannot see how to achieve what Rob Caldecott wanted using it.

Maybe you can shed some light on this? TIA!

Cheers,

Freddie

> Rob Caldecott wrote:

    > > Is there any way that, using Boost, you can dynamically create
    > > classes by name, similar to the MFC RUNTIME_CLASS macros?  I was
    > > hoping that the boost::serialize libs might be able to help with this.
    > >
    > > For example, I want to be able to do something like:
    > >
    > > CMyClass* pClass = CREATE_CLASS_BY_NAME("CMyClass");
    > >
    > > Can Boost help me to achieve this? 
      

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