Questions tagged [reflection]
Reflection is the ability of a computer program to examine, introspect, and modify its own structure and behavior at runtime.
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How to implement introspection of user-defined data in my software renderer
I am in the process of writing my own software renderer. I am currently working on setting up a shader system that allows users of the renderer to create their own Vertex Shader and Fragment Shader. ...
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How do I cleanly keep track of the type of various objects implementing a common interface without reflection?
In my multiplayer game I keep track of each player's inventory. I have a class for each inventory action that extends the abstract class InventoryItem. I then polymorphically call use() on the ...
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Why use a special "Name" class (instead of just a string) for representing object names in C++?
Suppose we have an Instance class in a C++ program, which has a GUID/UUID, name, parents, children, and other properties which can be saved to or loaded from an XML file.
The intuitive approach for ...
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How to show type introspection in UML
I'm modeling a part of Python/Qt GUI code which uses reflection to construct a collection of widgets, in a form. The code works like this:
There is a Model which has attributes of various types, ...
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Mapping list to another list dynamically
I had an idea for a piece of software using .NET C# as technology.
Basically, in my idea Im thinking of using reflection to do the mapping between a class to another class using interactivity with a ...
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Good approaches when one needs to access private variables in production systems
At my company we needed access to some variable to call a method on it, this variable is hidden about 6 layers down of different libraries code and each time it is behind a private variables (that ...
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What do IDEs use to do code completion suggestions?
For example if I have a class like
class Foo {
public int bar;
public Foo(int constructor_var) {
bar = construction_var;
}
public bar_plus_one() {
return bar++;
}...
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Java: Is reflection bad for AOP situations?
Imagine the following situation:
1. Consume a 3rd party WSDL, out comes thousands of classes.
2. There's an opportunity to optimize performance by using a custom paralleled implementation.
3. Wsdl ...
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Alternative to Reflection
I will directly come to our current working flow so that you can understand the problem in a clear picture.
I am attached in Laboratory Automation System in which Analyzer (a machine that performs ...
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How to build rest calls dynamically to interface with different APIs?
Lets say I am building an application where clients can book bus tickets. The only thing they do is select, origin, destination and the type of service (express or standard). The system will then book ...
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Method for loading and running user defined code in .NET windows application
Are there any patterns that address how to have and application load and run user defined code at run-time? I am looking into developing a C# library that the users of a Test Executive application (...
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Is there a pattern to describe a class that symbolises an instance of an instance of another class?
I am currently working on a project that generates videos from templates (a template being a collection of JSON files and assets).
It seems natural to have a Template class that contains all the info ...
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Effective ways of dealing with static analyser warnings caused by incidental use of reflection
I don't normally use reflection directly while programming in Java. But I do use APIs and frameworks that internally rely on reflection or annotations to provide customization points.
A lot of ...
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Need to call private method in third party library. Copy all class or use reflection?
I need to call a method that is available in a third party library, but it is a private method. There is no direct or indirect way to obtain the same functionality via public methods available.
I ...
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Is there a simple way to call a method on an object in another program with a given id over TCP?
I'm working on a project where I have two programs which need to invoke methods on some of each other's objects.
I do this by sending JSON objects over a TCP connection. These objects have a ...
