All,
Does anyone know of a tool that can create vanilla POD-like C++ structures from a Schema description?
Important qualities are:
- reasonable to use as "first class citizens" inside of the code.
- aggregates are packed just like native arrays.
- other, interactive language support ( i.e. Python or Matlab. )
- use of each languages native-types a plus.
- default and valid values defined and used.
Nice to haves are:
- no implicit use of the heap ( explicit through the schema would be okay )
- very light API ( no API is okay; element-name accessors-by-reference are okay; get_foo/set_foo is tolerable but discouraged. )
I've played with Google Protocol-Buffers briefly. It appears that a "repeated" & "packed" primitive satisfies one of my conditions, but the API is not designed for this use.
Context: I'm looking to write portable, high-performance code, ( thus must of my requirements, ) where intermediate products can be loaded / saved and then inspected and manipulated by proper analysis / scripting languages. The data structures are always changing, thus needing a way to auto-generate the classes for all languages involved.
