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Introspective

Introspective is a C++11 framework for runtime object introspection. Similarly to other programming languages such as Java, everything is an object, also classes. More exactly an Introspective class is an instance of the C++ class introspective::Class.

Features:

• Message passing OO: method triggering is performed through messages (introspective::Message), passed a dispatcher. Entities able to dispatch messages are called receiver (introspective::Message::Receiver). There are basically three types of receivers:
  • class: instances of introspective::Class;
  • object: instance of introspective::Object;
  • proxy: instances of classes defined inside the introspective::proxy namespace;
• object oriented: opposed to classic OO languages (like C++ or Java) with Introspective also Objects can define, override or hide methods and properties in runtime;
• Introspection: every class or object has the ability to examine its own type, methods and properties in runtime;
• dynamic inheritance: at any time a class (instances of introspective::Class) or objects (instances of introspective::Object) can modify their inheritance hierarchy modifying on the fly their OO behaviour;
• runtime class / object definition: every class and / or object can change its behaviour by adding / removing properties and methods in runtime;
• DSL: by C++ operator overloading the base syntax for a minimal domain specific language has been introduced;

Prerequisites:

• Extensible Exception Library (EEL) : simple framework for C++11 exception handling.
• Trivial Serialization Library (TSL): C++11 serialization library.

Distro supported:

• Centos-7
• Debian-8
• Gentoo
• Fedora-23
• OpenSUSE Leap 42.1
• Ubuntu 14