[erlang-questions] Record metadata

[Tim Watson]

Looks interesting. That code would be quite a lot shorter I think, if
it used http://github.com/esl/parse_trans rather than doing it by
hand.

On 27 March 2012 20:29, Dmitry Kolesnikov <dmkolesnikov@REDACTED> wrote:
> Thanks again for hit!
>
> I found the following solution very promising for my need, just need to hack it for record type.
> http://blogtrader.net/blog/recbird_an_erlang_dynamic_record
>
> Regards, Dmitry
>
> On Mar 27, 2012, at 1:49 PM, Tim Watson wrote:
>
>> You'd need the abstract code available and then you can call
>> dialyzer_utils:get_record_and_type_info/1 which returns a dict
>> containing the type information. You can then pass this dict to
>> various functions in the erl_types module to get back information
>> about type specs.
>>
>> If you don't want to rely on dialyzer at runtime, you'll need to
>> copy-paste the code from dialyzer_utils AFAICT. Also the erl_types
>> module is part of hipe.
>>
>> On 27 March 2012 07:58, dmitry kolesnikov <dmkolesnikov@REDACTED> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Let say I do have a record definition:
>>> -record(my, {
>>>  a :: atom(),
>>>  b :: binary()
>>> }).
>>>
>>> Are there any possibility to extract a metadata of record elements
>>> during run-time? E.g call_some_magic_fun that says R#my.a is atom,
>>> R#my.b is binary...
>>>
>>> Thanks for any advice!
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Dmitry >-|-|-*>
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