digitalmars.D.learn - lookup fields struct
Hi! I am want to get list of fields types and offsets in struct by the template. I.e., lookup through this struct: struct S { int a; string b; someptr* c; }; template Lookup!( S )(); returns something as: How I can do this?
May 26 2013
On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 14:19:13 UTC, mimi wrote:Hi! I am want to get list of fields types and offsets in struct by the template. I.e., lookup through this struct: struct S { int a; string b; someptr* c; }; template Lookup!( S )(); returns something as: How I can do this?std.traits and built-in traits should do what u asking. http://dlang.org/phobos/std_traits.html http://dlang.org/traits.html
May 26 2013
On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 14:19:13 UTC, mimi wrote:Hi! I am want to get list of fields types and offsets in struct by the template. I.e., lookup through this struct: struct S { int a; string b; someptr* c; }; template Lookup!( S )(); returns something as: How I can do this?To get a TypeTuple containing this information you can do this: template Lookup(S) { template Field(int index_, Type_, int offset_) { enum index = index_; alias Type = Type_; enum offset = offset_; } template impl(int i) { static if(i == S.tupleof.length) alias impl = TypeTuple!(); else alias impl = TypeTuple!( Field!(i, typeof(S.tupleof[i]), S.init.tupleof[i].offsetof), impl!(i + 1)); } alias Lookup = impl!0; } If you only want to format this information to a string it's even simpler: string lookup(S)() { auto r = ""; S s; foreach(i, e; s.tupleof) i, typeof(s.tupleof[i]).stringof, s.tupleof[i].offsetof); return r; } Then lookup!S will give you the string and you can use it at compile time or at run time.
May 26 2013
On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 23:37:01 UTC, mimi wrote:Wow! thanks!"offsetof" will automatically distribute over the arguments so to get the offsets of a tuple you can just do: auto tmp = TP.offsetof; And "tmp" will be a tuple of the offsets.
May 26 2013