Accessing members in a C++ struct both dynamically and statically

I would like to have a struct (or something similar) in C++, that will allow access to its members dynamically. It should have a generic getter and setters that receive the member name as a string, and return some sort of variant type (e.g. boost::variant).

I was thinking it could be implemented using boost::fusion::map, by adding a string representing the name of each member, and building an STL map between strings and getter or setter functions. I don't want to reinvent the wheel, so I was hoping something similar already existed.

What do you think? Would my idea work? Do you know other ways to accomplish my goal?

fusion is an approach, but why not store your "fields" in a std::map keyed by a std::string, where the payload is the boost::variant...

i.e.

struct generic
{
std::map<std::string, boost::variant<foo, bar, bob, int, double> > _impl;
};

and then you can just lookup the key in your getter/setter...

heck, wrap the variant in an optional and you could have optional fields!

a more complex example:

class foo
{
public:
  typedef boost::variant<int, double, float, string> f_t;
  typedef boost::optional<f_t&> return_value;
  typedef map<string, return_value> ref_map_t;

  foo() : f1(int()), f2(double()), f3(float()), f4(string()), f5(int()) 
  {
    // save the references..
    _refs["f1"] = return_value(f1);
    _refs["f2"] = return_value(f2);
    _refs["f3"] = return_value(f3);
    _refs["f4"] = return_value(f4);
    _refs["f5"] = return_value(f5);
  }

  int getf1() const { return boost::get<int>(f1); }
  double getf2() const { return boost::get<double>(f2); }
  float getf3() const { return boost::get<float>(f3); }
  string const& getf4() const { return boost::get<string>(f4); }
  int getf5() const { return boost::get<int>(f5); }

  // and setters..
  void setf1(int v) { f1 = v; }
  void setf2(double v) { f2 = v; }
  void setf3(float v) { f3 = v; }
  void setf4(std::string const& v) { f4 = v; }
  void setf5(int v) { f5 = v; }

  // key based
  return_value get(string const& key)
  {
    ref_map_t::iterator it = _refs.find(key);
    if (it != _refs.end())
      return it->second;
    return return_value();
  }

  template <typename VT>
  void set(string const& key, VT const& v)
  {
    ref_map_t::iterator it = _refs.find(key);
    if (it != _refs.end())
      *(it->second) = v;
  }

private:
  f_t f1;
  f_t f2;
  f_t f3;
  f_t f4;
  f_t f5;

  ref_map_t _refs;
};

int main(void)
{
  foo fancy;
  fancy.setf1(1);
  cout << "f1: " << fancy.getf1() << endl;

  fancy.set("f1", 10);
  cout << "f1: " << fancy.getf1() << endl;

  return 0;
}