Re: Cross-casting between templates

From:
"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 3 Mar 2009 19:39:09 -0500
Message-ID:
<gokio6$hb2$1@news.datemas.de>
Jon ?yvind Kjellman wrote:

Hi, suppose you have the following classes:

#include <iostream>

class Foo {
public:
 virtual void foo() { std::cout << "Foo::foo()\n"; }
 virtual ~Foo() {}
};

class Bar {
public:
 virtual void bar() { std::cout << "Bar::bar()\n"; }
 virtual ~Bar() {}
};

class FooBar : public Foo, public Bar {
 public:
 void foo() { std::cout << "FooBar::Foo()\n"; }
 void bar() { std::cout << "FooBar::Bar()\n"; }
};

template<typename T>
class Wrapper {
 T obj;
public:
 T& get_obj() { return obj; }
 Wrapper(T obj) : obj(obj) { }
 ~Wrapper() { }
};

Now suppose you would like to use a Wrapper<FooBar*> object, but for
it to also be castable to both Wrapper<Foo*> and Wrapper<Bar*> so
that you could do something along the lines of the following snippet.

void call_wrapped_foo(Wrapper<Foo*>& wrapped_foo)
{
 wrapped_foo.get_obj()->foo();
}

void call_wrapped_bar(Wrapper<Bar*>& wrapped_bar)
{
 wrapped_bar.get_obj()->bar();
}

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
 FooBar foobar;
 Wrapper<FooBar*> wrapped_foobar(&foobar);

 // Illegal!!
 call_wrapped_foo(dynamic_cast<Wrapper<Foo*> >(wrapped_foobar));
 call_wrapped_bar(dynamic_cast<Wrapper<Bar*> >(wrapped_foobar));
}

As expected the two last lines will not compile. However, can anyone
suggest a pattern of some sorts that will allow me to do something
similar (not necessarily dynamic_cast) without changing Foo, Bar or
FooBar. Wrapper does not necessarily need to be a template and other
helper classes may be added. I have thought about different pattern's
involving virtual inheritance, but couldn't find something that will
work. Short and elegant earns bonus points :)


What is it you're trying to accomplish? Introduce a mechanism that
would allow bypassing the virtual function resolution? You don't
really need all that dance with Wrappers, you know... Just do

    FooBar fb;
    fb.Foo::foo();
    fb.Bar::bar();

V
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