Added namespace detection example

examples/constexpr14_namespace_check.cpp

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+// Copyright 2013-2016 Antony Polukhin
+
+// Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
+// (See the accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt
+// or a copy at <http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt>.)
+
+#include <boost/config.hpp>
+
+#if !defined(BOOST_NO_CXX14_CONSTEXPR) && !defined(BOOST_NO_CXX11_CONSTEXPR)
+// Implementation of this function is not essential for the example
+template <std::size_t N>
+constexpr bool starts_with(const char* name, const char (&ns)[N]) noexcept {
+    for (std::size_t i = 0; i < N - 1; ++i)
+        if (name[i] != ns[i])
+            return false;
+            
+    return true;
+}
+
+//[type_index_constexpr14_example
+/*`
+    The following example shows that `boost::typeindex::ctti_type_index` is usable at compile time on
+    a C++14 compatible compilers.
+
+    In this example we'll create and use a constexpr function that checks namespace of the provided type.
+*/
+
+#include <boost/type_index/ctti_type_index.hpp>
+
+// Helper function that returns true if `name` starts with `substr`
+template <std::size_t N>
+constexpr bool starts_with(const char* name, const char (&substr)[N]) noexcept;
+
+
+// Function that returns true if `T` declared in namespace `ns`
+template <class T, std::size_t N>
+constexpr bool in_namespace(const char (&ns)[N]) noexcept {
+    const char* name = boost::typeindex::ctti_type_index::type_id<T>().raw_name();
+
+    // Some compilers add `class ` or `struct ` before the namespace, so we need to skip those words first
+    if (starts_with(name, "class ")) {
+        name += sizeof("class ") - 1;
+    } else if (starts_with(name, "struct ")) {
+        name += sizeof("struct ") - 1;
+    }
+
+    return starts_with(name, ns) && starts_with(name + N - 1, "::");
+}
+
+/*`
+    Now when we have that wonderfull function, we can do static assertions and other compile-time validations:
+*/
+
+namespace my_project {
+    struct serializer {
+        template <class T>
+        void serialize(const T& value) {
+            static_assert(
+                in_namespace<T>("my_project::types") || in_namespace<T>("my_project::types_ext"),
+                "Only types from namespaces `my_project::types` and `my_project::types_ext` are allowed to be serialized using `my_project::serializer`"
+            );
+
+            // Actual implementation of the serialization goes below
+            // ...
+        }
+    };
+
+    namespace types {
+        struct foo{};
+        struct bar{};
+    }
+} // namespace my_project
+
+int main() {
+    my_project::serializer s;
+    my_project::types::foo f;
+    my_project::types::bar b;
+
+    s.serialize(f);
+    s.serialize(b);
+
+    // short sh = 0;
+    // s.serialize(sh); // Fails the static_assert!
+}
+//] [/type_index_constexpr14_example]
+
+#else // #if !defined(BOOST_NO_CXX14_CONSTEXPR) && !defined(BOOST_NO_CXX11_CONSTEXPR)
+
+int main() {}
+
+#endif
+