D RTTI?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 08:17:07AM +0100, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-03-05 21:16, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> >I know D doesn't really have RTTI yet, but I'm experimenting with
> >"faking" it by doing something like:
> >
> >	class A {
> >		string prop1;
> >		int prop2;
> >		...
> >		void serialize() {
> >			__serialize(this);
> >		}
> >	}
> >
> >	void __serialize(T)(T obj) {
> >		writeln(typeid(obj));
> >		foreach (name; __traits(derivedMembers, T)) {
> >			writefln("%s = %s", name,
> >				__traits(getMember,obj,name));
> >		}
> >	}
[...]
> If you actually want serialization, and this was not just an
> example, you can use Orange:
> 
> https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/orange
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/orange/
[...]

For my purposes, I will eventually need to serialize only a subset of an
object's properties, and only for a certain class of objects. Does
Orange support selective serializations?


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