Main concepts

Type

CppReflection focuses on the concept of Type, each type (even not reflectable ones) have their corresponding Type. This type is used to store type informations like attributes, inheritance, name, this way we don't have to add any additional information inside the reflectable classes.

Retrieve a type

You can retrieve any kind of type using the CppReflection::TypeManager like the following:

#include <CppReflection/TypeManager.h>
#include "MyReflectedClass.h"

using namespace	CppReflection;

int main()
{
	IType* intType = TypeManager::findType<int>();
	IType* pointerType = TypeManager::findType<int*>();
	IType* myType = TypeManager::findType<MyReflectedClass>();
	return 0;
}

Reflectable objects also have a dedicated method to retrieve their type, getType:

#include "MyReflectedClass.h"

using namespace	CppReflection;

int main()
{
	MyReflectedClass instance;

	IType* myType = instance.getType();
	return 0;
}

Type usage

IType

ReflectableType