struct to/from std::tuple conversion

Question

Assuming I have struct and std::tuple with same type layout:

struct MyStruct { int i; bool b; double d; }
using MyTuple = std::tuple<         


        

Answer 1

Tuple to struct conversion is trivial, but backward I think is impossible at current C++ level in general.

#include 
#include 

#include 

namespace details
{

template< typename result_type, typename ...types, std::size_t ...indices >
result_type
make_struct(std::tuple< types... > t, std::index_sequence< indices... >) // &, &&, const && etc.
{
    return {std::get< indices >(t)...};
}

}

template< typename result_type, typename ...types >
result_type
make_struct(std::tuple< types... > t) // &, &&, const && etc.
{
    return details::make_struct< result_type, types... >(t, std::index_sequence_for< types... >{}); // if there is repeated types, then the change for using std::index_sequence_for is trivial
}

#include 
#include 

int main()
{
    using S = struct { int a; char b; double c; };
    auto s = make_struct< S >(std::make_tuple(1, '2', 3.0));
    assert(s.a == 1);
    assert(s.b == '2');
    assert(s.c == 3.0);
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

Live example.