Static type introspection

[IcyDefiance]

What problem does this solve or what need does it fill?

It would be nice if I could get the names and types of fields in a struct, without creating an instance of that struct.

What solution would you like?

Static methods on Struct, Tuple, etc.

What alternative(s) have you considered?

I could probably make my own macro to get just the info I need. It just feels like this is something that should be in a more general-purpose reflection crate.

Additional context

My personal use case was an experimental entity-first ORM. I was hoping to use bevy_reflect to help generate migrations, but I needed this feature to make it work that way.

I already scrapped that whole idea in favor of a headless CMS, but I'm sure this would be useful for others.

[MrGVSV]

Would #4042 fit your needs?

[IcyDefiance]

Yep, 100%.

Now that I see that, my suggestion of adding a method to Struct, Tuple, etc, seems a little silly. The new Typed trait is a much better idea.