• d-bugmail puremagic.com (37/37) Dec 15 2022 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23559

d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23559

          Issue ID: 23559
           Summary: Add trait to get members from symbol/module with
                    filtering
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P1
         Component: dlang.org
          Assignee: nobody puremagic.com
          Reporter: alphaglosined gmail.com

Adding a trait that allows returning alias symbols (like
``__traits(allMembers)``), but filtered for specific properties would allow for
cutting down the costs of reflection code and make it more clear what it is
doing.

Proposal:

```
__traits(getMembers, symbolOrModuleName, filters)
__traits(getMembersRecursive, symbolsOrModuleName, filters)
```

The difference between these two is one goes down nesting, and the other
doesn't (shallow vs deep search).

Filters are in the form of:

``struct | union | class | fields | function | import``

Ideally, this would be an expression so you can do or's and ands to require
things like udas. But not required, only need to offer just one option at a
time.

Common use cases for this include registration of: web routes, ORM models, CLI
handling routines.

Preliminary agreement on worthiness by Walter:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/14699#issuecomment-1352683461

This will require isStatic trait to be added to close
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16024

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