liff-engineer
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4 years ago Same problem for me. IMO dataclasses is a decorator, I try to implement like this:
auto dataclass = py::module::import("dataclasses").attr("dataclass");
py::class_<MyClass> myClass(m,"MyClass");
//class members export
//decorate MyClass by dataclass decorator
m.attr("MyClass")=dataclass(m.attr("MyClass"));But failed because some thing like "init instance".
There should be a way to implement, maybe I missed something.
pybind11 talks of course about how to wrap C++ classes so that they are accessible in python. The issue for me is that on the python side of things, we are using dataclasses very extensively. They provide a lot of useful built in features as well as type annotations that you can use with mypy. If you are wrapping a C++ class, then obviously, all the types are already present, so in principle it would be possible at no extra cost to export a dataclass rather than a regular python class, which would be really useful.
Maybe this is not possible to do from a purely C/C++ module, but if it is it would be pretty amazing.