Re: Simple inheritance-template question
On Apr 14, 12:12 pm, "crea" <n...@invalid.com> wrote:
Ok, let me put it like it is in my real program:
Holds the data:
struct DataHolder
{
Data* data;
};
Where real Data:
class Data {...};
Then I have a class which uses it:
class AA
{
public:
DataHolder m_data;
};
So now I can get hold of the real data from AA by:
m_data.data;
Now I want to inherit a class from AA:
class BB : public AA
{
public:
};
But for BB I want to use different data -class which is inherited from Da=
ta:
class BBData : public Data
{...};
struct DataHolder
{
BBData* data;
};
class AA
{
public:
DataHolder m_data;
};
class BB : public AA
{
public:
};
So the only thing which should change here is the DataHolder::data s type=
..
It looked like a template type problem. But because BBData is inherited f=
rom
Data, maybe virtuality /inheritance could also be used.
So this should be in DataHolder instead of Data if I create an BB object.
How to do this? I was thinking using templates first..
I would simply make sure (through correct coding) that BB does use
DataHolder that has a pointer to BBData (not "plain" data) and then
use this:
class AA
{
Data& GetData() { assert(m_data.data); return *m_data.data; }
}
class BB : public AA
{
BBData& GetData() { return static_cast<BBData&>(AA::GetData(); }
};
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