Re: Cannot Use GUID in map

From:
"Bill Davy" <Bill@XchelSys.co.uk>
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Date:
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:48:10 +0100
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"Hendrik Schober" <SpamTrap@gmx.de> wrote in message
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Giovanni Dicanio <giovanni.dicanio@invalid.com> wrote:

"David Wilkinson" <no-reply@effisols.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
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Igor Tandetnik wrote:

Map keys have to be comparable. By default, map tries to use built-in
less-than (<) operator, but that doesn't work with GUIDs. You need to
define your own comparator, and pass it as the third template
parameter.


Igor:

You can define operator <() for GUID's, no?


GUIDs are just arrays of bytes... so I think one could define an
operator<
considering byte-by-byte comparison (kind of char[] comparison,
char-by-char, like done in strcmp). Maybe it could be possible to convert
GUID to ANSI string and just use operator< for ANSI string (or strcmp).

I'm curious if there are better ways.


 What about 'memcmp()'?

Giovanni


 Schobi

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A small reservation. memcmp "assumes" there is nothing hidden in the data
structure. You're "assuming" things about packing. They might be different
on a different platform by which time you have moved on and some poor
maintenance programmer is stuck with the problem. Better is to define an
operator< (if a meaningful one can be defined) or convert to strings and
compare (and having operators to convert to/from strings is useful anyway.

/////////Include file
class GuidC

{

public:

GuidC(GUID &aGuid);

GuidC(TCHAR *sGuid);

//

// Count the instances of a device defined by GUID.

//

bool Count(unsigned &nDevices)const;

//

// Open an instance of a device defined by GUID.

//

bool Open(const DWORD InterfaceNumber, HANDLE &hDevice)const;

friend ostream& operator<<(ostream &os, const GuidC &v);

private:

GUID m_Guid;

LoggerC m_Logger;

};

//

// Output a readable representation of a GUID.

// {b61b0040-50d2-11dd-ae16-0800200c9a66}

//

ostream& operator<<(ostream &os, const GUID &v);

//

// Input a readable represetation of a GUID.

// {b61b0040-50d2-11dd-ae16-0800200c9a66} or
b61b0040-50d2-11dd-ae16-0800200c9a66

//

istream & operator>>(istream &Stream, GUID &aGuid);

///////////// cpp file

#include "stdafx.h"

#pragma comment(lib,"setupapi.lib")

GuidC::GuidC(GUID &aGuid):

m_Guid(aGuid), m_Logger(TheLogger)

{

}

GuidC::GuidC(TCHAR *sGuid):

m_Guid(), m_Logger(TheLogger)

{

istrstream is(sGuid);

is >> m_Guid;

ASSERT( ! is.fail() );

}

ostream& operator<<(ostream &os, const GuidC &v)

{

return os << v.m_Guid;

}

bool GuidC::Count(unsigned &nDevices)const

{

LPCGUID pGUID = &m_Guid;

HDEVINFO hwDeviceInfo = SetupDiGetClassDevs(pGUID,

NULL,

NULL,

DIGCF_PRESENT | DIGCF_DEVICEINTERFACE);

if ( hwDeviceInfo == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE )

{

const LastErrorC LastError;

LOGERROR("SetupDiGetClassDevs(" << *pGUID << ",,,): " << LastError);

return false;

}

bool Result;

for(nDevices=0;;++nDevices)

{

SP_DEVICE_INTERFACE_DATA DeviceInterfaceData;

DeviceInterfaceData.cbSize = sizeof(DeviceInterfaceData);

if ( ! SetupDiEnumDeviceInterfaces(hwDeviceInfo, 0, pGUID, nDevices,
&DeviceInterfaceData) )

{

const LastErrorC LastError;

if ( LastError.GetLastError() == ERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS )

{

Result = true;

break;

}

else

{

LOGERROR("SetupDiEnumDeviceInterfaces(,," << *pGUID << ",,): " <<
LastError);

Result = false;

break;

}

}

} // Next device

(void)SetupDiDestroyDeviceInfoList(hwDeviceInfo);

return Result;

}

bool GuidC::Open(const DWORD InterfaceNumber, HANDLE &hDevice)const

{

LPCGUID pGUID = &m_Guid;

bool Success = false;

//

// Make hDevice NULL so no further action is required on an error exit.

// If CreateFile() fails, we reset it to NULL from INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE.

//

hDevice = NULL;

HDEVINFO hwDeviceInfo = SetupDiGetClassDevs(pGUID,

NULL,

NULL,

DIGCF_PRESENT | DIGCF_DEVICEINTERFACE);

if ( hwDeviceInfo != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE )

{

//

// Do not return now without calling SetupDiDestroyDeviceInfoList()

// to free a resource.

//

SP_DEVICE_INTERFACE_DATA DeviceInterfaceData;

DeviceInterfaceData.cbSize = sizeof(DeviceInterfaceData);

if ( SetupDiEnumDeviceInterfaces(hwDeviceInfo,0,pGUID, InterfaceNumber,
&DeviceInterfaceData) )

{

// cout << "SetupDiEnumDeviceInterfaces() worked\n";

ULONG requiredLength = 0;

(void)SetupDiGetDeviceInterfaceDetail( hwDeviceInfo,

&DeviceInterfaceData,

NULL,

0,

&requiredLength,

NULL);

const ULONG predictedLength = requiredLength;

assert(predictedLength >= sizeof(SP_DEVICE_INTERFACE_DETAIL_DATA) );

UCHAR *pRawAllocation = new UCHAR[predictedLength];

if ( pRawAllocation )

{

SP_DEVICE_INTERFACE_DETAIL_DATA &DeviceInterfaceDetailData =
*(PSP_INTERFACE_DEVICE_DETAIL_DATA)pRawAllocation;//lint !e826 : pointer
size is OK

DeviceInterfaceDetailData.cbSize = sizeof(SP_DEVICE_INTERFACE_DETAIL_DATA);

SP_DEVINFO_DATA devInfoData;

devInfoData.cbSize = sizeof(devInfoData);

if ( SetupDiGetDeviceInterfaceDetail( hwDeviceInfo,

&DeviceInterfaceData,

&DeviceInterfaceDetailData,

predictedLength,

&requiredLength,

&devInfoData))

{

// cout << "SetupDiGetInterfaceDeviceDetail() worked\n";

hDevice = CreateFile(DeviceInterfaceDetailData.DevicePath,

GENERIC_WRITE | GENERIC_READ,

FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE,

NULL,

OPEN_EXISTING,

FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED,

NULL);

if ( hDevice == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE )

{

const DWORD LastError = GetLastError();

LOGERROR("CreateFile(" << DeviceInterfaceDetailData.DevicePath << "): " <<
LastError);

hDevice = NULL; // We use NULL to indicate an invalid handle.

}

else

{

//

// "Do not attempt to parse the device path symbolic name"

//

LOGINFO("Opened: " << DeviceInterfaceDetailData.DevicePath);

Success = true;

}

}

else

{

const LastErrorC LastError;

LOGERROR("SetupDiGetInterfaceDeviceDetail(): " << LastError);

}

delete [] pRawAllocation;

}

else

{

LOGERROR("Insufficient memory (wanted " << MemorySizeC(predictedLength) << "
bytes)");

}

}

else

{

const LastErrorC LastError;

if ( LastError.GetLastError() == ERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS )

LOGERROR("Interface number " << InterfaceNumber << " does not exist")

else

LOGERROR("SetupDiEnumDeviceInterfaces():" << LastError);

}

(void)SetupDiDestroyDeviceInfoList(hwDeviceInfo);

}

else

{

const LastErrorC LastError;

cerr << "SetupDiGetClassDevs():" << LastError << endl;

}

return Success;

}

ostream& operator<<(ostream &os, const GUID &v)

{

IoSaverC IoSaver(os);

//

// {f618a337-2b7a-4115-aeaf-578a16a66677}

//

os << hex << noshowbase

<< '{' << v.Data1

<< '-' << v.Data2

<< '-' << v.Data3

<< '-' ;

for(size_t i=0;i<ENTRIES(v.Data4);++i)

{

if ( i == 2 )

os << '-';

os << setw(2) << setfill('0') << (unsigned)v.Data4[i];

}

return os << '}';

}

istream & operator>>(istream &Stream, GUID &aGuid)

{

//

// Extract GUID in either of the forms:

// {e0317cca-bb7c-4e2a-9f28-a698e60ede99} or

// e0317cca-bb7c-4e2a-9f28-a698e60ede99

//

IoSaverC SaveAndRestoreStreamState(Stream);

//

// Set this when an error occurs. Inhibits assignment to aGuid and

// causes an error bit to be set in the stream.

//

bool Error = false;

//

// We read into this temporary, making the assigment to the user only if we

// are successful.

//

GUID Guid;

if ( Stream.peek() == _T('{') )

{

TCHAR c;

Stream >> c; // Loose the opening brace.

if ( _istxdigit(Stream.peek()) )

{

//

// Recursive call to deal with the rest.

//

Stream >> Guid;

if ( Stream.peek() == _T('}') )

{

Stream >> c; // Loose the closing brace.

}

else

{

Error = true;

}

}

else

Error = true;

}

else

{

TCHAR c0, c1, c2;

const TCHAR Dash = _T('-');

Stream >> Guid.Data1 >> c0 >> Guid.Data2 >> c1 >> Guid.Data3 >> c2;

if ( (c0 != Dash) || (c1 != Dash) || (c2 != Dash) ) Error = true;

for(unsigned i=0;i<ENTRIES(Guid.Data4) && !Error;++i)

{

if ( i==2 )

{

//

// e0317cca-bb7c-4e2a-9f28-a698e60ede99

// We are here:-----------^

//

Stream >> c0;

if ( c0!= Dash ) Error = true;

}

Stream >> c0 >> c1;

if ( ! _istxdigit(c0) || ! _istxdigit(c1) )

Error = true;

else

Guid.Data4[i] = HexToBin(c0,c1);

}

}

if ( Error || Stream.fail() )

(void)Stream.setf(ios::failbit);

else

{

//lint -esym(644, Guid) : Guid is initialised here

aGuid = Guid;

}

return Stream;

}

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