Code generation

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1. Introduction

2. Example

3. Custom extension of the metadata struct

4. Code generation of meta-metadata

5. Writing a template

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Introduction

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Example

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Custom extension of the metadata struct

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Code generation of meta-metadata

There is a subtile issue with code generation of structures for meta-metadata, which is a result of the memory layout of metadata in dlite. Lets say we want to generate a header file with a C struct corresponding to the built-in EntitySchema, which describe the memory layout of metadata. Since last two fields of this struct are the arrays __propdiminds[] and __propoffsets[]. The length of these arrays depends on the number of properties of the metadata instance, which we don’t know at the time we generate

Writing a template

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