Re: Reflection in game engine (c++)

"CES"?

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Gabriel Sassone <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello gents,
>    I wanted to experiment with reflection and I found different way to
> obtain it:
>
>   1) Invasive macro based registration
>   2) Reflection visitor pattern
>   3) Parsing pdb/clang stuff and create a manual table of what you want/need
>   4) c++ custom parser that uses tags to create reflection informations
> (like a comment near a member, ...) (exuberant ctags???)
>   5) create serializable/reflected classes in a data format, then run a tool
> that generates headers and cpps
>
> I am trying to figure out flaws and merits of each kind, and even if there
> are other solutions.
> I love the idea to have the possibility to serialize in and out structures,
> access fields and change values, stream in/out stuff from network ,and maybe
> link with scripting.
>
> My goal is to have fast iteration times, both artists and programmers, and I
> achieved it for rendering programmers already with having json binarized
> configurable rendering, but still there are code stuff that are not easy to
> achieve.
>
> Here are my thoughts, but I would like to hear your ideas and experiences!
>
> 1) Very precise on what you can register/serialize, but painful to maintain
> or plug into an existing codebase
> 2) Less precise but you just need one method per class, that you can use to
> serialize/reflect. Still bad in maintaining, but better in plugging in.
> 3) You make the compiler do the work, then translate the informations you
> need in your format. Easy to maintain, to plug...maybe slow in parsing? Slow
> your build pipeline?
> 4) maybe easier than using pdbs, but less powerful (you cannot invoke
> methods on objects). should be faster than 3.
> 5) crazy idea. requires generation of code from outside...powerful like 4,
> so data reflection, but you cannot invoke methods if you want.
>
> What are your experiences/thoughts?
>
> Thanks to everyone that read this mail!
>
>     Gabriel
>
>
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