Re: designing classes without default c'tor; using them with STL containers and operator>>(istream&)
[rob desbois] wrote:
[snip]
Another requirement is that I need to implement (non-member) I/O
streaming functions. The output operator<<() is no problem, but again
with an input operator:
istream& operator>>(istream& in, const Foo& f);
I have to use this like so:
Foo f;
in >> f;
This obviously requires, again, that I can construct an instance
through the default constructor thus generating an invalid object.
Consider:
Foo f(in);
That is, a constructor that accepts an istream&
Another good workaround that occurred to me about 5 minutes after my
initial post.
Seems a shame to give up the nice syntax afforded by the extraction
operator, but I guess I can't have my cake and eat it!
Huh? If you have a constructor from an istream, you could do:
istream& operator>> ( istream & istr, Foo & foo ) {
foo = Foo(istr);
return ( istr );
}
or
istream& operator>> ( istream & istr, Foo & foo ) {
Foo dummy ( istr );
swap( foo, dummy );
return ( istr );
}
or, in case you don't want extraction to throw, something like:
istream& operator>> ( istream & istr, Foo & foo ) {
try {
Foo dummy ( istr ); // could throw.
swap( foo, dummy ); // should not throw.
}
catch (...) {
// set whatever failure indicating bits you want in istr.
}
return ( istr );
}
Best
Kai-Uwe Bux
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