Re: Two parent classes each with boost::enable_shared_from_this

From:
Carl Barron <cbarron413@adelphia.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Wed, 7 Mar 2007 02:00:44 CST
Message-ID:
<060320072058280698%cbarron413@adelphia.net>
In article <eskaje$nj$1@inews.gazeta.pl>, <"limcore@gazeta.pl"> wrote:

How to solve following problem:

I have two base classes A1 and A2, each must be able to return this as a
shared_ptr - it have a boost::enable_shared_from_this

Next they have a son B and its son C.

In C I want to get this as shared_ptr<A1> (and later dynami cast it into
C and use it) and also I want to be able to get this in form of
shared_ptr<C> (well - same thing as previous with casting)

   A1 A2 - two parents, they must have enable_shared_from_this
   | |
   | |
    \ /
      B - B class
      |
      C - C class

now in C I need to get pointer to this as shared_ptr<A1>
and later I need to dynamic cast it into shared_ptr<C>


   well if
   struct A1 {};
   struct A2{};
   struct B:A1,A2{};
   struct C:B,boost::enable_shared_from_this<C>
   {
      void foo()
      {
         boost::shared_ptr<A1> a1=shared_from_this();
         //...
         boost::shared_ptr<A2> a2=shared_from_this();
         // ...
         boost::shared_ptr<C> c = shared_from_this();
         // ...
      }
   };

  this works but no virtual hellos to prevent the which hello problem.
<begin code>
#include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>
#include <boost/enable_shared_from_this.hpp>
#include <exception>
#include <iostream>

struct Base
{
   virtual ~Base(){}
};

struct A1:public virtual Base
{
   void hello() {std::cout << "A1\n";}
};

struct A2:public virtual Base
{
   void hello() {std::cout << "A2\n";}
};

struct B: public A1,public A2
{
   void hello() {std::cout << "B\n";}
};

class C:public B,public boost::enable_shared_from_this<C>
{
public:
   void foo()
   {
      boost::shared_ptr<A1> a1 = this->shared_from_this();
      a1->hello();
      boost::shared_ptr<A2> a2 = this->shared_from_this();
      a2->hello();
      boost::shared_ptr<Base> base = this->shared_from_this();
      boost::shared_ptr<B> b = this->shared_from_this();
      b->hello();
      boost::shared_ptr<C> c = this->shared_from_this();
   }
};

int main() try
{
   boost::shared_ptr<C> c(new C);
   c->foo();
   std::cout << "done\n";
}
catch(std::exception const &x)
{
   std::cerr << x.what() << '\n';
}

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