C++ Template Virtual Function

From:
Vishal <vishalrawate6@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:22:34 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<28415332-301e-4d6a-a119-49f5349c09b2@v6g2000pbb.googlegroups.com>
Hi,

I have Class A and according to my requirements the implementation of
the class is fixed. Class A manages the setting/getting of values.
The values stored can be of type integer, unsigned integer, character,
unsigned character and std::strings. The available types can grow in
the future. I'm having trouble finding a manageable way of storing
values of different types with the ability of retrieving them. The
problem area is class B's getValue method. It can't be a virtual
template method of a non template class. So, how should I provide a
unified way for class A to get a list of all the stored values that
match the tag value being passed?

I don't need to have a class B and C. If there is a better way that
only has one class, it's okay. I do want to avoid just having a bunch
of switch statements that executes different code based on different
types. This is what I think is unmanageable as new type are required.

#include<list>

class B
{
   private:
    unsigned long m_Tag;

  public:

    B(unsigned long tag) : m_Tag(tag) {}

    template<typename T>
    virtual int getValue(std::list<T> &val) = 0;

}; // end of class B

template<typename T>
class C : public B
{
private:
    T m_Value;

public:
    C(unsigned long const& tag, T const& value) : B(tag) {
        m_Value = value;
    }

    virtual int getValue(std::list<T> &val) {
        val.push_back(m_Value);
    }

}; // end of class C

class A
{
    private:
    std::list<B> m_Collection;

     public:
    template<typename T>
    setTagValue(unsigned long tag, T const& value) {
        m_Collection.push_back(C<T>(tag, value));
    }

    template<typename T>
    getTagValue(unsigned long const tag, std::list<T> values) {
        for(auto i = m_Collection.begin(); i != m_Collection.end(); i++) {
                 if(i->getTag() == tag) {
                i->getValue(values);
                  }
        }
    }

  }; // end of class A

int main (void)
{
    A collection;

    collection.setTagValue(2, "hello");
    collection.setTagValue(3, static_cast<int>(3));

    std::list<int> values;

    collection.getTagValue(3, values);
};

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