IDL-like parser that turns a document definition into powerful classes?

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Published on 2010-06-14T20:33:17Z Indexed on 2010/06/14 20:52 UTC
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I am looking for an IDL-like (or whatever) translator which turns a DOM- or JSON-like document definition into classes which

  • are accessible from both C++ and Python, within the same application
  • expose document properties as ints, floats, strings, binary blobs and compounds: array, string dict (both nestable) (basically the JSON type feature set)
  • allow changes to be tracked to refresh views of an editing UI
  • provide a change history to enable undo/redo operations
  • can be serialized to and from JSON (can also be some kind of binary format)
  • allow to keep large data chunks on disk, with parts only loaded on demand
  • provide non-blocking thread-safe read/write access to exchange data with realtime threads
  • allow multiple editors in different processes (or even on different machines) to view and modify the document

The thing that comes closest so far is the Blender 2.5 DNA/RNA system, but it's not available as a separate library, and badly documented.

I'm most of all trying to make sure that such a lib does not exist yet, so I know my time is not wasted when I start to design and write such a thing. It's supposed to provide a great foundation to write editing UI components.

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