mirror/example/hello_world.cpp

Simple yet not very useful hello world example. Shows the basics of namespace and type registration and reflection

Copyright 2008-2011 Matus Chochlik. Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

#include <mirror/meta_namespace.hpp>
#include <mirror/meta_type.hpp>
#include <iostream>

namespace Hello {

struct World { };

} // namespace Hello

MIRROR_REG_BEGIN
// Register the Hello namespace
MIRROR_QREG_GLOBAL_SCOPE_NAMESPACE(Hello)

// Register the ::Hello::World type
MIRROR_REG_TYPE(Hello, World)

MIRROR_REG_END

int main(void)
{
    using namespace mirror;
    // reflect the Hello::World type and print its full name
    std::cout <<
        MIRRORED_TYPE(Hello::World)::full_name() <<
        std::endl;
    //
    // get the scope of the Hello::World class (the Hello namespace)
    // and print its base name and then print the base name
    // of the Hello::World class
    std::cout <<
        mirror::reflected<Hello::World>::type::scope::base_name() <<
        ", " <<
        mirror::reflected_type<Hello::World>::base_name() <<
        "." <<
        std::endl;
    //
    return 0;
}

/* Example of output:
Hello::World
Hello, World.
*/