Reputation: 5098
I am facing the following problem: I have some visitors on for boost::variant, which all doing the same for a specific type, here foo, so the method
void operator()(const foo& ast)
{
//allways the same
}
is allways the same in every single visitor. Since I dont want to write this redundant method in all the visitors, I tried to avoid this adding a common base class, which implements this method, to all the visitors. Problem the method calls the visitor itself recursivly, like this:
void operator(const foo& ast)
{
for(auto&& item : ast.members)
{
boost::apply_visitor(*this, item);
}
}
and since all the other methods, which are matching for the members arent implemented in the base class, I get an compiler error, on this. Now my question is, how can I get rid of my redundant code?
Here is an example on how the problem could look:
struct variant_one;
struct variant_two;
struct nil{};
typedef boost::variant<
boost::spirit::x3::forward_ast<variant_one>,
boost::spirit::x3::forward_ast<variant_two>,
nil
> example_variant;
struct variant_one {};
struct variant_two
{
std::vector<example_variant> members;
};
struct visitor_one : boost::static_visitor<void>
{
void operator()(const variant_one& ast)
{
std::cout << "visitor_one detected var_one" << std::endl;
}
//this is the redundant method
void operator()(const variant_two& ast)
{
std::cout << "visitor detected var_two, output members:" <<std::endl;
for(auto&& member : ast.members)
{
boost::apply_visitor(*this, member);
}
}
}
struct visitor_two : boost::static_visitor<void>
{
void operator()(const variant_one& ast)
{
std::cout << "visitor_one detected var_two" << std::endl;
}
//this is the redundant method
void operator()(const variant_two& ast)
{
std::cout << "visitor detected var_two, output members:" <<std::endl;
for(auto&& member : ast.members)
{
boost::apply_visitor(*this, member);
}
}
}
Upvotes: 0
Views: 124
Reputation:
Something like this?
template<typename Derived>
struct VisitorBase {
void operator()(const foo& ast) {
for(auto&& item : ast.members) {
boost::apply_visitor(*static_cast<Derived*>(this), item);
}
}
};
struct VisitorA : VisitorBase<VisitorA> {
void operator()(const ItemType& item) {
// do stuff
}
};
or if the types used in visitors are the same/known beforehand and virtual functions are fine:
struct VisitorBase {
void operator()(const foo& ast) {
for(auto&& item : ast.members) {
boost::apply_visitor(*this, item);
}
}
virtual void operator()(const ItemTypeA&) = 0;
virtual void opetator()(const ItemTypeB&) = 0;
};
struct VisitorA : VisitorBase {
void operator()(const ItemTypeA& item) {
// do stuff
}
void operator()(const ItemTypeB& item) {
// do stuff
}
};
In the first example you might want to make sure that you don't accidentally instantiate the template with a non-derived type, for example with this:
static_assert(std::is_base_of<VisitorBase,Derived>::value, "Derived should be derived from VisitorBase");
That will still leave open the possibility of instantiating a VisitorBase
-derived type with a different VisitorBase
-derived type in the template parameter, leading to undefined behavior. So be careful.
Upvotes: 2