C++ reflection and to/from key value pair (like json)

Question

I found this answer to kind of do reflection in C++: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11748131/5507357

However, I would like to 'expand' this to do 'deserialization'. So for example, I have a json Person object

{ 
    "Person": 
    { 
        "name": "Tom",
        "age": 82
    }
}

Or an ini file, or xml. How can I create a Person struct with these values with this reflection? The code does not have to 'detect' it is a Person object, it is all about the members.

Answer 1

I would advice you to look at Google Protocol Buffers . In C++ reflections are supported and json export. In other languages json import is also supported.