[cfe-dev] Parsing C++ Header File

[Matthieu Brucher]

Hi,

I made something like that in the past, but with gccxml, and I more or less
achieved the same thing with pyclang.
I made a free function called encode() and a decode() for usual data types,
and then I use my small script (https://github.com/mbrucher/clang2xml) to
help me generate a encode(const MyClass&) decode(MyClass&) that calls the
appropriate encode and decode functions, depending on what I scanned. In my
case, I also added wrappers for each public function (which actually was my
main goal, clang2xml is not as advanced as what I did in the past
http://matt.eifelle.com/2009/07/21/using-gccxml-to-automate-c-wrappers-creation/
),
but you can keep it simpler and only serialize and unserialize your data.
With both libclang and the steps I used with gccxml, I think you will be
able to achieve your goal ;)

Cheers,

Matthieu



2013/5/29 Raghavendra Keshav <ragavendrakk at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> Problem: Want to parse C++ classes in a header file and generate
>               serialize and deserialize methods for this class.
>               example:
>               sample.h
>                #include ....
>                 class Test
>                 {
>                     std::map<int,string> myMap;
>                     int i;
>                     string s;
>                     A obj;
>                 };
>
> ==>Transform it as below
>                 class Test
>                 {
>                     std::map<int,string> myMap;
>                     int i;
>                     string s;
>                     A obj;
>                    public:
>                     void* encode();
>                 };
>
>             void*     Test::encode()
>             {
>                 for( i- 0; i<myMap.size(); i++)
>                 encodeString();
>
>                  encodeInt();
>
>                  encodeString();
>                  obj.encode();
>
>                return buf;
>             }
>
> With the tutotials around i could setup the compiler instance
> and ASTConsumer and ASTVisitor/
> In the ASTRecursive visitor... i could overload visitRecordDecl(...);
> On getting a CXXRecordDecl...i have iterated through FieldDecl
> Now From FieldDecl...i want to extract information like
> it is map made from int and string...
> Am not able get the relationship of FieldDecl to CTemplateDecl...
> and from CTemplateDecl how to extract the params?
>
> Pls provide direction how to proceed further...
>
> regards
> ragha
>
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