Re: Using SFINAE with member function types

From:
Carl Barron <cbarron413@adelphia.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:20:34 CST
Message-ID:
<210720070337139154%cbarron413@adelphia.net>
In article <1184979526.199331.181740@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
Chris Fairles <chris.fairles@gmail.com> wrote:

Below is some code illustrating the wrong way to do what I'd like to
do. I have a class "A" with function "void f(int,int)" and class "B"
without that function. Is there a way to construct a traits-like
class, Q, that contains a constant expression (Q<T>::value) that
evaluates to true if some class T has the function "void f
(int,int)" ?

Pretend A and B cannot be changed. You only have Q to work with.

struct A {
  void f (int,int){}
};

struct B{};

template <class T,class F=void>
struct Q {
  enum{value=false};
};

template<class T>
struct Q<T,void(T::*)(int,int)> {
  enum{value=true};
};

int main() {
  if( Q<A>::value ) {cout << "A";}
  if( !Q<B>::value ){cout << "B";}
}

I'd like this to output "AB". I've tried playing around with
boost::enable_if and boost::function_traits but have not come up with
a solution.

The above code is a trivial case. The real case is, I'm trying to come
up with a "is_serializable" type trait (Q) so that an I/O "write"-like
function does something special for non-serializable classes (and just
does normal serialization for those that are). Every serializable
class has this function defined (as a mem func):
template <typename Archive>
void serialize(Archive &, const unsigned int);

If I could add a typedef to each serializable class, no problem. I
could even make a typelist of all serializable classes and use a
visitor/enable_if or something but I'd like to consider these last
resorts.


See boost::mpl

template <class T>
struct is_serializable:boost::mpl::contains
<
   boost::mpl::vector<types_to_serialize_comma_seperated>,
   T

{
};

this has a nested typedef typedef something type;
where something is either boost::mpl::true_ or boost::mpl::false_,
with obvious meanings. type also has an operator bool() const,
and a static const bool which return /is the boolean value true or
false accordingly.

so you can overload for boost::mpl::true_ and boost::mpl_false
or just add a boolean value that defaults to
is_serializable<T>::type::value.

template <class T>
void my_function(const T &a,bool which=is_serializable<T>::type::value)
{
   check the value of which at runtime.
}

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