Re: Problem with template

From:
Sam <sam@email-scan.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:15:57 -0500
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lhommedumatch writes:

Hi,
I have a derived template class and I want to call a method of the
derived class from the base class.
But the method need a template parameter.
How can I do?

Here is the code that doesn't work.

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

//==============================================================
class A
{
   public:
   A()
   {
      std::cout << "constructeur de A" << std::endl;
   }
   ~A()
   {
      std::cout << "destructeur de A" << std::endl;
   }
};

//==============================================================
template <class T> class B: public A
{
   public:
   B():A()
   {
      std::cout << "constructeur de B" << std::endl;
   }
   ~B()
   {
      std::cout << "destructeur de B" << std::endl;
   }
   T _value;
   void setValue(T p_value)
   {
    _value = p_value;
   }
};

//==============================================================
int main()
{
   A *a = new B<int>;
   a->setValue(23131);
   delete a;
}
//==============================================================

Thanks


There are several ways to do this.

The easiest way, and is probably what your real intention is, is to declare
setValue() as a pure virtual function in class A:

virtual void setValue(int)=0;

You can also declare ~A() as a virtual destructor. This will enable you to
use dynamic_cast<> to obtain the pointer to your subclass, and invoke it's
setValue() method.

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