reflective-rapidjson/TODOs.md

Reflection-related: requires extending generator

• Test with (multiple) inheritance
• Test multiple input files
• Add appropriate error handling for de-serialization
• Add reflector based on Boost.Hana
• Add another generator to prove expandability: maybe for getting members by name in general, similar to one of the proposals
• Add documentation (install instructions, usage)
• Allow making 3rdparty classes/structs reflectable
  • Add additional parameter for code generator to allow specifying relevant classes explicitly
  • Fix traits currently relying on JsonSerializable being base class
• Allow exporting symbols
• Fix the massive number of warnings which are currently being created by the code generator (missing -resource-dir was the problem)
• Test with libc++ (currently only tested with libstdc++)
• Support templated classes
• Allow (de)serialization of static members (if that makes sense?)
• Allow ignoring particular members or selecting specifically which member variables should be considered
  • This could work similar to Qt's Signals & Slots macros.
  • but there should also be a way to do this for 3rdparty types.
  • Note that currently, all public member variables are (de)serialized.
• Allow using getter and setter methods
  • Allow to serialize the result of methods.
  • Allow to pass a deserialized value to a method.

• Validate enum values when deserializing
  • Likely undoable with Boost.Hana
• Untie serialization and deserialization

Library-only

• Support std::unique_ptr and std::shared_ptr
• Support std::map and std::unordered_map
• Support std::any
• Support std::optional
• Support/document customized (de)serialization (eg. serialize some DateTime object to ISO string representation)