# reflective-rapidjson

The main goal of this project is to provide a code generator for serializing/deserializing C++ objects to/from JSON
using Clang and RapidJSON.

However, extending the generator to generate code for other applications of reflection or provide generic
functionallity would be possible as well.

## Usage
This example shows how the library can be used to make a `struct` serializable:
```
TODO
```

Note that the header included at the bottom must be generated by invoking the code generator appropriately:
```
TODO
```

It is possible to use the provided CMake macro to automate this task:
```
TODO
```

### Using Boost.Hana instead of code generator
The same example as above. However, this time Boost.Hana is used. So it doesn't required to invoking the generator.

```
TODO
```

## Install instructions

### Dependencies
* C++ compiler and standard library supporting at least C++14
* the CMake build system
* LibTooling from Clang for the code generator
* RapidJSON for JSON (de)serialization
* `c++utilities` for various helper functions

Optional:

* CppUnit for building and running the tests
* Doxygen for generating API documentation
* Graphviz for diagrams in the API documentation

Note that `reflective-rapidjson` and none of these dependencies are required at runtime by an application which
makes use of the `reflective-rapidjson`.

### How to build
Install all required dependencies and ensure the CMake script finds them. It is possible to build `c++utilities`
together `reflective-rapidjson` to ease the build process. The following build script makes use of this. To use
system `c++utilities`, just skip any lines with `c++utilities` in it.

```
TODO
```