Getting name and type of a struct field from its object

Question

For example, I have a struct which is something like this:

struct Test
{
    int i;
    float f;
    char ch[10];
};

And I have an object of this struct such as:

Test obj;

Now, I want to programmatically get the field names and type of obj. Is it possible?

This is C++ BTW.

Answer 1

You are asking for Reflection in C++.

Answer 2

I'm afraid you cannot get the field names, but you can get the type of obj using Boost.Typeof:

#include <boost/typeof/typeof.hpp>
typedef BOOST_TYPEOF(obj) ObjType;