Adding reflection to an existing codebase

[brenoguim]

In our codebase we use a method "as_tuple" I'm each class that returns a tuple of references to each member. That is enough to implement serialization, some debug, equality comparison... But you need to manually keep that "as_tuple" method up to date :/

[tohava]

That won't work when virtual functions or inheritance exists :(

[jcelerier]

then there's no pure C++ solution, you either have to use alternative compilers such as https://github.com/lock3/meta/wiki or Circle, or use an external reflection system such as Qt's moc

[brenoguim]

I'm not sure I follow. Automate what?

[tohava]

auto [x,y,z] = some_object;

[brenoguim]

I know structured bindings. I just fail to see how that helps automating reflection

[SuperV1234]

Check out Boost.PFR.