Add an example for using the reflection API

examples/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ if(SLANG_ENABLE_EXAMPLES)
     example(platform-test WIN32_EXECUTABLE)
     example(ray-tracing WIN32_EXECUTABLE)
     example(ray-tracing-pipeline WIN32_EXECUTABLE)
+    example(reflection-api)
     example(shader-object)
     example(shader-toy WIN32_EXECUTABLE)
     example(triangle WIN32_EXECUTABLE)

examples/reflection-api/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+Slang Reflection API Example
+============================
+
+This example shows basic usage of the Slang reflection API to
+traverse the parameters of a program, including type and
+layout information.

examples/reflection-api/compute-simple.slang

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+// compute-simple.slang
+
+struct ImageProcessingOptions
+{
+    float3 tintColor;
+    float blurRadius;
+
+    bool useLookupTable;
+    StructuredBuffer<float4> lookupTable;
+}
+
+[shader("compute")]
+[numthreads(8, 8)]
+void processImage(
+    uint3 threadID : SV_DispatchThreadID,
+    uniform Texture2D inputImage,
+    uniform RWTexture2D outputImage,
+    uniform ImageProcessingOptions options)
+{
+    /* actual logic would go here */
+}