D and reflection

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On Wednesday, 7 May 2014 at 18:24:23 UTC, Kapps wrote:
> On Wednesday, 7 May 2014 at 16:51:10 UTC, amehat wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I'm working on porting a java library in D, and I stuck on a 
>> class because it works with the reflection.
>>
>> From what I've read on prowiki 
>> (http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguagesVersusD), D 
>> can not do reflection, it is limited to the Run-Time Type 
>> Information (RTTI ) (http://dlang.org/traits.html).
>>
>> Here is the piece of code that blocks me:
>>
>> static {
>>        Class clazz = this.class;
>>
>>        auto accessible2Args = new Callback(clazz, 
>> "accessibleProc", 2);
>>        auto proc2Args = accessible2Args.getAddress();
>>        if (proc2Args === 0) {
>> 		(...)
>> 	}
>> (...)
>> }
>>
>> I am looking for a workaround that I have not found yet.
>> If someone an idea on the subject, I'm interested.
>>
>> Thank you to you.
>
> You can generate reflection data at compile-time to use at
> runtime.
>
> For an example, you can take a look at
> https://shardsoft.com/stash/projects/SHARD/repos/shardtools/browse/source/ShardTools/Reflection.d
> (docs: https://shardsoft.com/docs/ShardTools/Reflection.html). I
> wouldn't use the file/repo directly, but feel free to take
> anything you find useful from it.

I think something like this should be included in phobos