Re: [Vala] Is there any way to deserialize something into object in vala?

[Eric Gregory <eric yorba org>]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:03 AM, marcin saepia net <marcin saepia net>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need to create a sort of abstraction layer between the database and
> my vala app.
>
> It would be great if it was possible to interate over my class
> properties, read they type etc. and dynamically map fields from the DB
> to the properties.
>
> Is there any way to do that?
>
> I know that it is possible within GObject, as json-glib has that
> functionality, but is it possible without access to low-level C
> GLib/GObject macros? Only in Vala?
>
> m.

It may not be *exactly* what you want, but have you taken a look at
SQLHeavy's ORM codegen?
http://code.google.com/p/sqlheavy/wiki/ORMGenerator

 - Eric