Interface design question

From:
bvssatish@gmail.com
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:21:11 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<a7f98e9b-40c3-419c-b132-b532ba872703@googlegroups.com>
Hello,

      Have a design related question and hope to hear some insights.

      Interfaces using abstract classes impose restriction(s) on it's derived implementations.
        - The most widely used restriction is to IMPLEMENT Function(s)

      Question:
        Is it permissible to have similar kind of restriction for any data members in the interface?
        In a way that if some one wants to implement the interface it also must initialize certain variable.

     Ex:
 
        Say for a TCP/IP it absolutely necessary to have peer's IP address and Port number.
        So, is wise to impose a restriction to pass above variable to initialize the class.

        class IP4Connection
        {
               public:
                    explicit IP4Connection( string ip, uint port);
                    virtual int send() = 0;
                    virtual int listen() = 0;
                    virtual int reconnect() = 0;
               protected:
                    std::string ip;
                    uint port;
        };

Thanks,
Siva.

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