Re: access attributes from record

[Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>]

Dominik F�ssler wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Is it possible to determine the 'Length of a record, loop
> it an get attribute name/value/type?

If I understand your question correctly, you have a record type (or 
an object of a record type) and you want to write a loop that 
traverses the record's components, one by one from the first to the 
last, and somehow learns the name, type, and value of each 
component? A bit as if the record were an array, and you were 
traversing over the elements of the array, but in the record case 
the components have names instead of array indices, and may have 
different types?

You cannot do this within you Ada application itself, but you can 
do something similar (at least for component names and types, but 
not for values) by means of the Ada Semantic Interface Standard 
(ASIS), in a metaprogramming fashion. That is, you pass the Ada 
record definition (embedded in a compilable Ada program) to an 
ASIS-enabled Ada compiler such as GNAT, which produces an ASIS 
data-base, and then you write a second Ada (meta-)program to query 
the ASIS data-base for the record structure. But as this is 
meta-programming (not reflective programming) you only have access 
to static type information, not to dynamic values.

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Niklas Holsti
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