I've done this a couple of times before but I always had issues, e.g. functions and property calls would be mixed in. But I think I have a good go-to function now:
import std.algorithm; import std.conv; import std.string; import std.stdio; import std.range; struct Foo { int one = 1; @property int test() { return 1; } int three = 3; string[string] aa; string toString() { return prettyFieldsString(this); } } string prettyFieldsString(T)(T t) if (is(T == struct) || is(T == class)) { Appender!string result; Appender!(string[]) fields; Appender!(string[]) values; foreach (member; __traits(allMembers, T)) { mixin(" static if (!is( FunctionTypeOf!(t." ~ member ~ ") )) { static if (member != " ~ `"toString"` ~ ") { fields.put(member); values.put(to!string(__traits(getMember, t, " ~ `"` ~ member ~ `"` ~ "))); } } "); } size_t spaceLen = 1; foreach (field; fields.data) // should use reduce!() here.. spaceLen = max(spaceLen, field.length); alias std.array.replicate replicate; string spaceString = replicate(" ", spaceLen); foreach (field, value; lockstep(fields.data, values.data)) result.put(format("%s: %s%s\n", field, replicate(" ", spaceLen - field.length), value)); return result.data; } void main() { Foo foo; foo.aa["foo"] = "bar"; writeln(foo); } Sample output: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/558492/ I've had to put everything into one foreach loop since there are still some CTFE bugs I run into. I also had to add a check against toString, otherwise I get an infinite loop in the toString() call. Anyway, feel free to use/improve this function.