Portable reflection for C++ with the Mirror library

Authors

  • Matus Chochlik University of Zilina

Keywords:

reflection, reflective programming, metaprogramming, design-pattern implementation

Abstract

Reflection and reflective programming can be used for a wide range of tasks such as implementation
of serialization-like operations, remote procedure calls, scripting, automated GUIgeneration,
implementation of several software design patterns, etc. C++ as one of the most
prevalent programming languages however, for various reasons, lacks a standardized reflection
facility. In this paper we present Mirror - a portable library adding reflection to C++ with a
command-line utility automating its usage. This library supports functional style static compiletime
reflection and metaprogramming and also provides two different object-oriented run-time
polymorphic layers for dynamic reflection.

Author Biography

Matus Chochlik, University of Zilina

Department of Computer Science, Assistant professor

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Published

2012-06-30

How to Cite

[1]
M. Chochlik, “Portable reflection for C++ with the Mirror library”, J. inf. organ. sci. (Online), vol. 36, no. 1, Jun. 2012.

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