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Max Symploke
Max Symploke

Reputation: 1

Multi-type container in C++

I am looking for a C++ class to store multi-type parameters to be used as global configuration mechanism.

The following approximation stored pairs of param_name - param_value. Where param value is multi-type.

Anyone knows any library or alternative for this purpose?

Any alternative to the following code? 

#ifndef _GLOBAL_CONFIG_HPP_
#define _GLOBAL_CONFIG_HPP_

#include <boost/any.hpp>
#include <boost/lexical_cast.hpp>
#include <boost/optional/optional.hpp>

#include <map>
#include <string>
#include <ostream>
#include <typeinfo>

namespace GC
{

  class Global_Config
  {

  public:

    typedef std::string label_t;
    typedef std::map< label_t, boost::any > data_m_t;

  private:

    data_m_t data_m_;

  public:

    template< class T >
    void get( boost::optional< T >& data, const label_t& label )
      throw (  boost::bad_any_cast, std::bad_alloc )
    {
      data_m_t :: iterator it = data_m_.find( label );
      data = ( it == data_m_.end( ) ) ?
             boost::optional< T >( ) : boost::any_cast< T >( it->second );
    }

    template< class T >
    void set( const label_t& label, const T& data )
    {
      data_m_[ label ] = data;
    }

    friend std::ostream& operator<< ( std::ostream& os, const Global_Config& gc );
  };


  class ex_chk_type_ok : public std::exception { };

  // WARNING: throwing ex when type found for performance purposes!!!!
  template< class T >
  void ostream_over_global_config_chk_type( std::ostream& os,
                        const boost::any& value)
  {
    if( value.type( ) == typeid( T ) )
    {
     os << boost::any_cast< T > ( value );
     throw ex_chk_type_ok( ); 
    }
  }


  std::ostream& operator<<( std::ostream& os, const Global_Config& gc )
  {

    for( Global_Config::data_m_t:: const_iterator it( gc.data_m_.begin( ) );
     it != gc.data_m_.end( ); ++it )
     {
      os << it->first <<  ("=");
      try 
      {
        ostream_over_global_config_chk_type< bool >              ( os, it->second );
        ostream_over_global_config_chk_type< char >              ( os, it->second );
        ostream_over_global_config_chk_type< short >             ( os, it->second );
        ostream_over_global_config_chk_type< unsigned short>     ( os, it->second );
        ostream_over_global_config_chk_type< int >               ( os, it->second );
        ostream_over_global_config_chk_type< unsigned int>       ( os, it->second );
        ostream_over_global_config_chk_type< float >             ( os, it->second );
        ostream_over_global_config_chk_type< long>               ( os, it->second );
        ostream_over_global_config_chk_type< unsigned long >     ( os, it->second );
        ostream_over_global_config_chk_type< long long >         ( os, it->second );
        ostream_over_global_config_chk_type< unsigned long long >( os, it->second );
        ostream_over_global_config_chk_type< double >            ( os, it->second );
        ostream_over_global_config_chk_type< long double >       ( os, it->second );
        ostream_over_global_config_chk_type< wchar_t >           ( os, it->second );
        ostream_over_global_config_chk_type< std::string >       ( os, it->second );
      } catch(  ex_chk_type_ok &ex )
      {
        //Do nothing, ex to break checkings for performance purposes...
      }
      os << "(" << it->second.type( ).name( ) << ")";
      if( it != gc.data_m_.end( ) ) os << ";";

    }
    return os;  
  }

}; // ns GC
#endif

Upvotes: 0

Views: 404

Answers (1)

Germ&#225;n Diago
Germ&#225;n Diago

Reputation: 7673

The most dynamic way for configuration is in the lines of Poco::DynamicAny.

This is just like any, but you don't need the cast when retrieving the value. Given an object of DynamicAny you can do:

DynamicAny d{100.2};
//Note that there is no need for casting
double my_double = d;

Another alternatives for configuration are Boost.Program_Options, I think that mainly for command-line but can also be used for reading from files if I don't recall incorrectly. Boost.PropertyTree. is mainly for hierarchical configuration files.

Upvotes: 1

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