Re: typedef struct RTTI/Reflection

From:
Hector Santos <sant9442@nospam.gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:37:42 -0500
Message-ID:
<O91f6LfvKHA.5936@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>
Hector Santos wrote:

I am wondering if MFC with RTTI, if it has any sort of reflection
concept. I don't see myself.


 > ...
 >
 > typedef struct tagTFileRecord {
 > DWORD Status;
 > DWORD Area;
 > char Name[SIZE_LONG_FILE_NAME];
 > char Description[SIZE_FILE_DESCRIPTION];
 > char Password[SIZE_PASSWORD];
 > TUserInfo Uploader;
 > FILETIME PostTime;
 > FILETIME FileTime;
 > FILETIME LastAccessed;
 > DWORD FileFlags;
 > DWORD FileSize;
 > DWORD Downloads;
 > DWORD Cost;
 > } TFileRecord;
 >
 > ...
 >

and in addition, using reflection also create ODBC CTFileRecordSet class
with the proper DoFieldExchange() member functions.

Currently, the way we do this is with a C/C++ header files parser and
converter that creates the interfaces for other languages. I am
wondering if its possible to use MFC/RTTI do automatic this for me for
C/C++.


Another use will be to create marshalling proxies over the wire RPC
communications , like we have for Java using a Cpp2Java converter.
The java class for TFileRecord is:

//****************************************************
// File: TFileRecord.java
// (c) copyright 2002 Santronics Software Inc.
//
//****************************************************
// DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!!!
// CPP2JAVA GENERATED FROM SOURCE FILE: wctype.h
//****************************************************

package COM.winserver.wildcat;

import java.io.IOException;

public class TFileRecord extends WcRecord {
   public int Status;
   public int Area;
   public String Name;
   public String Description;
   public String Password;
   public TUserInfo Uploader;
   public long PostTime;
   public long FileTime;
   public long LastAccessed;
   public int FileFlags;
   public int FileSize;
   public int Downloads;
   public int Cost;
   // Total size
   public static final int SIZE =
4+4+MAX_PATH+76+32+TUserInfo.SIZE+8+8+8+4+4+4+4;

   // Constructors
   public TFileRecord()
   {
   }

   public TFileRecord(byte[] x)
   {
     fromByteArray(x);
   }

   // Methods
   protected void writeTo(WcOutputStream out) throws IOException
   {
     super.writeTo(out);
     out.writeInt(Status);
     out.writeInt(Area);
     out.writeString(Name, MAX_PATH);
     out.writeString(Description, 76);
     out.writeString(Password, 32);
     Uploader.writeTo(out);
     out.writeLong(PostTime);
     out.writeLong(FileTime);
     out.writeLong(LastAccessed);
     out.writeInt(FileFlags);
     out.writeInt(FileSize);
     out.writeInt(Downloads);
     out.writeInt(Cost);
   }

   protected void readFrom(WcInputStream in) throws IOException
   {
     super.readFrom(in);
     Status = in.readInt();
     Area = in.readInt();
     Name = in.readString(MAX_PATH);
     Description = in.readString(76);
     Password = in.readString(32);
     Uploader = new TUserInfo(); Uploader.readFrom(in);
     PostTime = in.readLong();
     FileTime = in.readLong();
     LastAccessed = in.readLong();
     FileFlags = in.readInt();
     FileSize = in.readInt();
     Downloads = in.readInt();
     Cost = in.readInt();
   }
}

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