Tools
There are a variety of command line tools provided by the cxxheaderparser project.
dump tool
Dump data from a header to stdout
# pprint format
python -m cxxheaderparser myheader.h
# JSON format
python -m cxxheaderparser --mode=json myheader.h
# dataclasses repr format
python -m cxxheaderparser --mode=repr myheader.h
# dataclasses repr format (formatted with black)
python -m cxxheaderparser --mode=brepr myheader.h
Anything more than that and you should use the python API, start with the simple API first.
test generator
To generate a unit test for cxxheaderparser:
Put the C++ header content in a file
Run the following:
python -m cxxheaderparser.gentest FILENAME.h TESTNAME
You can copy/paste the stdout to one of the test files in the tests directory.