Re: Interfaces, restricting access
On 2008-10-19 02:41, Christopher wrote:
I am surprised this hasn't come up for me more in the past, but the
situation is:
I need to have an interface that is usable for all
I need to have an interface that is only usable for some
I do not really know of a good way to achieve this. If I use friend
functions, I can no longer make methods virtual, right?
Not sure exactly what you mean by that, a friend function/class can call
a virtual function (as shown in this, somewhat contrived, example):
#include <iostream>
class PubInterface
{
public:
virtual void PubFunc() = 0;
};
class PrivInterface
{
virtual void PrivFunc() = 0;
friend void doIt(PubInterface&);
};
void doIt(PubInterface& i)
{
i.PubFunc();
PrivInterface* pi = dynamic_cast<PrivInterface*>(&i);
if (pi != 0)
pi->PrivFunc();
}
class Impl1 : public PubInterface
{
public:
void PubFunc()
{
std::cout << "PubFunc()\n";
}
};
class Impl2 : public PubInterface, public PrivInterface
{
void PrivFunc()
{
std::cout << "PrivFunc()\n";
}
public:
void PubFunc()
{
std::cout << "PubFunc()\n";
}
};
int main()
{
Impl1 i1;
Impl2 i2;
doIt(i1);
doIt(i2);
return 0;
}
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