compile time introspection and code generation - automatically serialize to json

[Robert Clipsham]

On 21/07/2011 08:57, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm taking a look at D again and asked myself, if
> it is possible to write a template mixin or something
> similiar that automatically serializes an object to json.
>
> For example:
>
> class MyClass
> {
>      string memberA;
>      int memberB;
>      MyClass memberC;
>      mixin ToJson!MyClass;
> }
>
> should make possible to automatically output
> "someid" { "memberA" : "somestring",
> 	"memberB" : 12,
> 	memberC : "someotherid"};
>
> How could this be accomplished? I've found std.traits
> RepresentationTypeTupel but don't see how this would
> help me.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tobias
>
>

Side note: If/when you finish this, you should definitely make a pull 
request for phobos' std.json! This sort of thing would be incredibly useful!

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Robert
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