Re: Simple inheritance-template question

From:
Goran <goran.pusic@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:56:14 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<3ba65432-9aa1-4c9c-8326-59496b82f3e0@p3g2000vbv.googlegroups.com>
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(); }
};

Goran.

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