Iterating Through Struct and Class Members

C provides various mechanisms to iterate through the members of structs and classes. To achieve this, you can employ several techniques.

Defining the Struct with a Macro:

One approach is to use the REFLECTABLE macro, as seen in the following example:

struct A
{
    REFLECTABLE
    (
        (int) a,
        (int) b,
        (int) c
    )
};

By using this macro, you can conveniently iterate over the fields and print their values as follows:

struct print_visitor
{
    template
    void operator()(FieldData f)
    {
        std::cout 
void print_fields(T & x)
{
    visit_each(x, print_visitor());
}

A x;
print_fields(x);

Adapting the Struct as a Fusion Sequence:

Another option is to adapt the struct as a Boost.Fusion sequence. Consider the following example:

struct A
{
    int a;
    int b;
    int c;
};

BOOST_FUSION_ADAPT_STRUCT
(
    A,
    (int, a)
    (int, b)
    (int, c)
)

With this adaptation, you can iterate over the fields using the following code:

struct print_visitor
{
    template
    void operator()(Index, C & c)
    {

        std::cout ::call() 
                  (c) 
                  
void print_fields(C & c)
{
    typedef boost::mpl::range_c::type::value> range;
    boost::mpl::for_each(boost::bind(print_visitor(), boost::ref(c), _1));
}

These techniques allow you to effectively iterate through struct and class members in C .