Is there a good template engine for C++

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does anyone know of a good C++ template engine? Since, my aim is to try to generate C++ and Python code, given a template and a description of what needs to be filled in that template, in short, I'm trying to do something like cayenne but for C++ and Python, using a C++ processor. Since it would be usefull for my other projects to automate the generation of persistence code.

Thanks in advance.

anijhaw · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-16 00:01:27Z

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Have you had a look at Cheetah. We have been using Cheetah for a large Code generation project in QA and it has been working well for us.

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Edward Strange Over a year ago

I fly a cheetah. They're kind of fugly but I like it.

Coyote21 Over a year ago

Thanks, even if cheetah is in python, it's ok, since the template is only to be used by the generation tool, and that will probably have an UI, to ease the creation of templates, so python actually fits better in this case.

Dmitry Romanov Over a year ago

Unfortunately the Cheetah development looks dead. It will not be upgraded to python3.

Molly J Over a year ago

The original Cheetah was forked and Cheetah 3 does support python3 github.com/CheetahTemplate3/cheetah3

user8669743 · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-25 13:22:47Z

Inja (https://github.com/pantor/inja) is a template engine for C++. It is header-only and quite simple, but works well for me.

Hugh Perkins · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-20 09:10:46Z

Not sure of your precise requirements, but I've created a very lightweight templating engine at https://github.com/hughperkins/Jinja2CppLight

handles variable substitution
for loops
- including nested for loops
very lightweight: no dependencies on qt, boost, etc ...

Rui Curado · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-16 18:07:09Z

AtomWeaver is a target-agnostic generator: you can target any language or mix of languages in a single template. Template programming is done via Lua scripts though.

This generator implements a generative modeling approach (named ABSE): You can build a model by using small bits (the templates) and save it as a project. Then you can then evolve the model and/or the templates.

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