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UDRefl

Ubpa Dynamic Reflection

Extremely fast and powerful C++20 dynamic reflection library

Documentaion ->

• to-do
• change log
• manual (TODO)
• overview
  • 中文
• introduction
  • English
  • 中文

How to Use

the example code is here, other examples is here

Suppose you need to reflect struct Vec

struct Vec {
  float x;
  float y;
  float norm() const {
    return std::sqrt(x * x + y * y);
  }
};

Manual registration

Mngr.RegisterType<Vec>();
Mngr.AddField<&Vec::x>("x");
Mngr.AddField<&Vec::y>("y");
Mngr.AddMethod<&Vec::norm>("norm");

Iterate over members

for (auto&& [name, info] : FieldRange_of<Vec>)
  std::cout << name.GetView() << std::endl;

for (auto&& [name, info] : MethodRange_of<Vec>)
  std::cout << name.GetView() << std::endl;

Constructing types

SharedObject v = Mngr.MakeShared(Type_of<Vec>);
std::cout << v.GetType().GetName() << std::endl; // prints "Vec"

Set/get variables

v.Var("x") = 3;
v.Var("y") = 4;
std::cout << "x: " << v.Var("x") << std::endl;

Invoke Methods

std::cout << "norm: " << v.Invoke("norm") << std::endl;

Iterate over variables

for (auto&& [name, var] : v.GetVars())
  std::cout << name.GetView() << ": " << var << std::endl;

other example

• const & static
• method
• enum
• overload
• inheritance
• virtual inheritance
• attr
• lifetime (ctor, dtor)
• dynamic field
• invoke
• meta function
• reference
• serialize
• container
• compatible
• tuple
• pointer
• array
• string
• variant
• optional
• bootstrap
• [data-driven] RegisterType

Features

• global fields, methods or enums
• classes with single-, multiple- and virtual-inheritance
• constructors (arbitrary argument count) and destructors
• methods (virtual, abstract, overloaded, arbitrary argument count) : you can pass arguments by a buffer (on stack or heap)
• ability to invoke methods of classes from any arbitrary class level
• argument type auto convertion when invoking method
• no header pollution: the reflection information is created in the cpp file to minimize compile time when modifying the data
• working with custom types without the need of having the declaration of the type available at compile time (useful for plugins)
• possibility to add additional attribute to all reflection objects
• reference
• pointer, array
• standard container, iterator
• meta function
  • operations: operator +, operator-, …
  • container: begin, end, empty, size, …
• bootstrap
• no macro usage
• no rtti required
• no exceptions (this feature come with cost and is also regularly disabled on consoles)
• no external compiler or tool needed, only standard ISO C++20

Compiler compatibility

• Clang/LLVM >= 10.0
• GCC >= 10.0
• MSVC >= 1926

Tested platforms:

• Windows 10: VS2019 16.8.5

• Ubuntu 20: GCC 10.2, Clang 11.0

• MacOS 11.0 : GCC 10.2

  AppleClang 12 and Clang 11 is not supported

Licensing

You can copy and paste the license summary from below.

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2020 Ubpa

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