Swift doesn't provide official reflection API, some 'hacks' exist but no complete

("Swift seems to encourage serialization libraries more akin to what you'd find in Haskell or C#, neither of which do much runtime dynamism")

approaches:

• reflect() (Mainly supports IDE operations)
  https://gist.github.com/mchambers/67640d9c3e2bcffbb1e2
  https://gist.github.com/mchambers/fb9da554898dae3e54f2

• _stdlib_getTypeName()
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24060667/does-swift-support-reflection/25345461#25345461

interesting approach utilizing functional aspects

• http://chris.eidhof.nl/posts/json-parsing-in-swift.html
  (code gist) https://gist.github.com/chriseidhof/4c071de50461a802874e

existing libs:

• https://github.com/Hearst-DD/ObjectMapper.git
• https://github.com/jspahrsummers/Crust (Re-imagining Mantle in Swift (experimental)
• https://github.com/SwiftyJSON/Alamofire-SwiftyJSON
• https://github.com/daltoniam/JSONJoy-Swift
• https://github.com/ap4y/JsonSerialize
• https://github.com/SwiftyJSON/SwiftyJSON.git