virtual inheritance and traits technique

From:
mathieu <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:27:15 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<9ff46a75-43d2-4b9e-a5fd-0d76e51a0a21@u34g2000yqu.googlegroups.com>
Hi,

  I am trying to use virtual inheritance when implementing a client
interface (that uses a traits technique). Here is the interface:

// Fixed API
template <typename T>
struct AA {
};
template <typename T>
struct BB {
};
template <typename T>
struct CC : public T::A , public T::B {
  void specialfunc() {}
};
struct Trait {
  typedef AA<Trait> A;
  typedef BB<Trait> B;
  typedef CC<Trait> C;
};

for this I provide my own subclasses. MyA, MyB and MyC are real
classes and can be instanciated (just like AA, BB and CC).

struct Common {
  virtual void f() {}
  virtual void g() = 0;
  void h() {}
};
template <typename T>
struct MyA : public AA<T>, public virtual Common {
  virtual void f() {}
  virtual void g() {}
  void callh() { this->h(); }
};
template <typename T>
struct MyB : public BB<T>, public virtual Common {
  virtual void f() {}
  virtual void g() {}
  void callh() { this->h(); }
};
template <typename T>
struct MyC : public CC<T> {
  virtual void f() {}
  virtual void g() {}
  void callh() { this->h(); }
};
struct MyTrait {
  typedef MyA<MyTrait> A;
  typedef MyB<MyTrait> B;
  typedef MyC<MyTrait> C;
};

This does not work since the compiler requires that Common::f() &
Common::g() should be implemented in the client *own* class: CC.

I thought of making MyC inherits directly from MyA and MyB (to bypass
indirection), but I'll be loosing the `C::specialfunc()` function.

Any suggestion for this issue ? Thanks !

For anyone interested in this issue, code is at:

http://gdcm.svn.sf.net/viewvc/gdcm/Sandbox/virtual4.cxx

$ g++ virtual4.cxx
virtual4.cxx: In instantiation of =91CC<MyTrait>':
virtual4.cxx:37: instantiated from =91MyC<MyTrait>'
virtual4.cxx:53: instantiated from here
virtual4.cxx:9: error: no unique final overrider for =91virtual void
Common::f()' in =91CC<MyTrait>'
virtual4.cxx:9: error: no unique final overrider for =91virtual void
Common::g()' in =91CC<MyTrait>'

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