[erlang-questions] Record to Xml

[Torben Hoffmann]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB)
<ulf.wiger@REDACTED>wrote:

> Torben Hoffmann skrev:
>
>>
>>  You should have a look at the preprocessor function record_info/2 which
>> could give you a list of the field names like this:
>>
>> FieldNames = record_info(fields,ewayRequest),
>>
>> The problem is that the record name has to be known at compile time so you
>> need a function along these lines:
>>
>> record_fields(#evayRequest{}) ->
>>       record_info(fields,ewayRequest);
>> record_fields(#other_record{}) ->
>>       record_info(fields, other_record).
>>
>> The downside is that you need to add a clause every time you define a new
>> record.
>> The record_fields could be auto-generated using a script by keeping all
>> record definitions in a .hrl file and generate a module with the
>> record_fields function. Any scripting language will suffice here - I have
>> used both sed and Erlang for the job in the past.
>>
>
> You can also use the exprecs library which does exactly this,
> and then some, via a parse transform.
>
> http://forum.trapexit.org/viewtopic.php?p=21790#21790
>
> BR,
> Ulf W
>

Bummer - I should have googled this a lot better before I wrote my own code.

Thanks for the tip,
Torben
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