On Tuesday, 5 September 2017 at 19:59:27 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
On Tuesday, 5 September 2017 at 19:44:40 UTC, EntangledQuanta
wrote:
Just an idea for you: in delphi you can set the properties of
a component (a class with runtime reflection enabled) on
runtime. You can even call the methods and events of a
component. I build a Delphi Bridge for D (see recent post on
announce). It is almost the same scenario as here are also
dll calls involved.
What I want to say, you could build something like the Delphi
rtti for your D classes and make generic methods available
via the dll interface.
But that would be quite a bit of work? Modifying the compiler?
I'm just looking for something relatively straightforward and
simple ;)
It is possible without modifying the compiler. In every class
you want enable for runtime reflection you need to add a
generic method which generates for all public
properties/methods coding to fill/call them. It is a mix of
templates and mixins.
In the end compile time reflection capabilities of D are so
powerful that you can write runtime reflection with it.
Thanks for the tip!
Kind regards
André
Thanks, Yeah, that is essentially what I was going to do with
attributes, but rather than having a member do it, have a free
function that tries to do the same thing...
But then the question remains how to output that information so
it can then be used to link in to the "script" that will be
compiled?
