Re: how to force overriding

From:
timor.super@gmail.com
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
1 May 2007 07:13:42 -0700
Message-ID:
<1178028822.065822.47720@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>
On 1 mai, 16:05, Rolf Magnus <ramag...@t-online.de> wrote:

timor.su...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,
I would like to make a class, that if another class derives from this,
people has to override somes functions, obligatory.

I can do that with pure virtual function, like this :

class Test
{
public:
Test()
{
cout << "Ctor Test" << endl;
}
virtual void fToOverride() = 0;
};

but, what i would like to do, is to force to override, but that my
function do something :

class Test
{
public:
Test()
{
cout << "Ctor Test" << endl;
}
virtual void fToOverride()
{
cout << "i'm here" << endl;
}
};

I would like that people that derives from Test, have to override the
function fToOverride and when calling it, that it does output "i'm
here" and do what they have written in their derived class.

How to do that ? (i hope i've been clear enough)


You can make it pure virtual and implement it, but it will only be called if
the derived class's implementation explicitly calls it. Otherwise you can
wrap the function, like:

class Test
{
public:
    void fToOverride()
    {
        cout << "i'm here" << endl;
        do_fToOverride();
    }
private:
    virtual void do_fToOverride() = 0;

};

Now the derived class must override do_fToOverride().


Thanks for your help
this is exactly what i want

Best regards,

S.

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