Is there support for automatic serialization/deserialization?

[BigDaddyDeezel]

Is there any support for automatic serialization/deserialization? For example some sort of template magic that would just choose a string to use for the key name based on the property name directly, to skip the having to manually add an entry for each property by hand in the from_json() and to_json() methods? I see 2 really helpful benefits there - 1) the obvious of course is less code needing to be written by the developers using this lib, but the more important is 2) if a property is added later to a structure, it wouldn't be accidentally forgotten to be serialized too

[nickaein]

Short answer: It's not currently possible.

Long answer: Such functionality needs Reflection support in C++ language which is not present yet. There are some discussions and proposals to add support for static reflection in C++ which is targeted for C++23 or later.

[lawmaestro]

Short answer: It's not currently possible.

Long answer: Such functionality needs Reflection support in C++ language which is not present yet. There are some discussions and proposals to add support for static reflection in C++ which is targeted for C++23 or later.

This library provides struct reflection, perhaps this could be a route to achieving this?
https://github.com/cbeck88/visit_struct