Dlang CTFE fun to generate a map of class names, to factories for that class for every class inheriting from given class.

CTFE_ClassName_to_Object_Map.d

import std.stdio;

class wibble
{
    const string name()
    {
        return typeid(this).name;
    }
}


class fibble: wibble
{

}

class bibble: wibble
{

}

class bobble:wobble
{

}



/** 
  * Generate a compile-time assotiative array of class names, to 
  * object factories which generate a new object of that type when called
  *
  */
template getTypes(T)
{
static T function() [string] getTypes()
{
    assert(__ctfe); //Let us know if d-runtime tries to run getTypes at runtime, because we don't want it too!
    /**
      * Get all 'members' of this file.
      * That is functions, classes, structs, global data, everything
      **/
    const static string[] members = [__traits(allMembers, mixin(__MODULE__))];

    // Make the assotiative array.
    T function() [string] types;
    
    // Loop over each 'member'
    static foreach(m; members)
    {
        //If its something that is a specialization of T ( i.e a subclass )
        static if (is (mixin(m) : T)) // If its a class
        {
            /** Add it too the array by name, 
              with a function which generates an object of that type as the value
              **/
            types[m] = makeObjectFactory!(mixin(m));
        }
    }

    return types;
}

    /**
      * Take a type, and return a function which, when called, creates an object of that type.
      */
    template makeObjectFactory ( factoryType )
    {
        T function() makeObjectFactory()
        {
            return function(){ return new factoryType; };
        }
    }
}

int main()
{
    /**
      * The types array has to be an enum, otherwise dlang just re-runs the 
      * getTypes templated function at runtime and regenerates the array.
      * If you declare 'types' here to be const, then dlang runs getTypes at compile time, so the pragma passes. 
      * But it then just discards it and runs it at runtime again.
      * This is because the runtimes for assotiative arrays are different at compile time, and runtime.
      * https://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]
      **/
    enum wibble function()[string] types = getTypes!wibble();

    /** We can tell the array above is created at compile time, because this pragma works.
      * ["wibble":function () pure nothrow @safe => new wibble, "fibble":function () pure nothrow @safe => new fibble]......
      */
    pragma(msg, types);

    //Call the factory function for 'fibble' objects
    auto w = types["fibble"]();

    writeln(w.name()); // test.fibble

    return 0;
}