Alexander Granizo (2013)

Licence: MIT

This is a small code generator example written in Python useful for creation of new C++ classes. The generated code in not intended for direct compiling, but are useful for generating initial class definition files for further development.

It depends on cog, a code generation tool written in Python by Ned Batchelder, and takes some ideas from cogflect project.

1. Install Python

2. Install pip Python package manager

   On Windows: <python_dir>\Scripts\easy_install pip On Linux: $sudo apt-get install python-pip

3. Install cog package

   pip install cogapp

4. (optional) Add the directory cog_class_wizard\generator to system path

Write a yml file describing the structure of a needed C++ class place it in the generator/ directory and run the provided Python script. An sample configuration file is provided along with the code. The script reads the configuration from all .yml files on current directory and creates the needed .cpp and .h files.

If script directory is on system path, it is possible to run generator.py from any folder.

Non-code text, such as header and comments can be defined on cog files in template/ directory. To modify the generated code, modify or add a new Python class in src/classwizard/ folder.