Re: detecting stack unwinding

From:
brok@spam-trap-cop.net (Bronek Kozicki)
Newsgroups:
comp.std.c++
Date:
Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:41:22 GMT
Message-ID:
<13cp2roohc7llcb@corp.supernews.com>
restor wrote:

Of course using a macro already suggests that we are missing something
in the language, and, as usually with macros, unexpected things can
happen like in:


yeah, it would be much simpler if the interface of original transaction
class was enriched with explicit "commit" (and preferably "rollback")
functions. We could simply write (on the lap):

class transaction_owner
{ // all private
   ~transaction_owner() {}
   virtual void begin_transaction() = 0;
   virtual void commit_transaction() = 0;
   // following is no-op if already commited and never throws
   virtual void rollback_transaction() = 0;
   friend class transaction; // to improve encapsulation
};

class transaction : boost::noncopyable
{
   transaction_owner& to_;
public:
   explicit transaction(transaction_owner& to) : to_(to)
     {to_.begin_transaction();}
   void commit() {to_.commit_transaction();}
   void rollback() (to_.rollback_transaction();}
   ~transaction() {to_.rollback_transaction();}
};

class connection : public transaction_owner
                  , public boost::noncopyable
{
   virtual void begin_transaction();
   virtual void commit_transaction();
   virtual void rollback_transaction();
// . . .
};

   connection& conn = // . . .
   transaction t(conn);
   conn.execute(statement1);
   conn.execute(statement2);
   t.commit();

.. and above will work in all situations, including nested loops or
inside destructor called during stack unwinding.

B.

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