CppReflection

This is a solution for using reflection in a C++ project. With it, you can selectively apply reflection to your C++ types, and also get meta information about types at runtime.

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Requirements

• C++20 compatible compiler (MSVC, clang++)
• Supported OS: Windows, Linux

Build

# Build MetaGenerator
premake5 vs2022   # Required for MetaGenerator (.NET)
dotnet build MetaGenerator/MetaGenerator.csproj -c [Debug|Release]

# Build CppReflection

# Windows
msbuild Reflection\CppReflection.vcxproj

# Linux
premake5 gmake
make CppReflection

How to use

• Include headers (Reflection/Include)
• Setup MetaGenerator (See Generator Usage for details)

Common features

• Automatic generation of metainformation

• Assembly

  • Dynamic loading
  • Type extraction (by name)

    ⚠️(except generic types)

• Attributes (for types, field, methods, constructors)

• Types (class / struct / generics)

  • Name
  • Namespace
  • Size
  • Parent types
  • Lifetime control
    • Constructors
    • Destructors
  • Fields
    • Name
    • Accesse (read / write) (local / static)
  • Methods
    • Name
    • Signature (return type / argument types)
    • Dynamic invoke
  • IsA checks

• Generic Types

  • Template name
  • Parameter types (Single, multiple and ellipsis)

    ⚠️ Only type parameters are supported (no value parameters)

• Enums

  • Name
  • Namespace
  • Base type
  • Value names
  • Values

• Static and polymorphic type extraction

• Cast (upcast, downcast, crosscast)

  💡 Without RTTI

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Here more information about how to use CppReflection.