TypeTraits for Parameters

From:
jrwats <jrwats@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Thu, 27 May 2010 02:38:57 CST
Message-ID:
<2a731ee4-4179-4495-a192-29f948797cbd@v29g2000prb.googlegroups.com>
So we have this templated factory for COM objects. A simplistic view
of it would be the following:

template <class T>
class Creator
{
public:
     // const& arguments
     template <class I>
     static HRESULT Create(I** ppI)
     {
         return Create(NoArg(), NoArg(), NoArg(), NoArg(), NoArg(),
                       NoArg(), NoArg(), NoArg(), ppI);
     }

     template <class TArg1, class I>
     static HRESULT Create(TArg1 t1, __deref_out I** ppI)
     {
         return Create(t1, NoArg(), NoArg(), NoArg(), NoArg(),
                       NoArg(), NoArg(), NoArg(), ppI);
     }

     // Handle Arguments 2 - 7 as above

     template <class TArg1, class TArg2, class TArg3, class TArg4,
class TArg5,
               class TArg6, class TArg7, class TArg8, class I>
     static HRESULT Create(TArg1 t1, TArg2 t2, TArg3 t3, TArg4 t4,
TArg5 t5,
                           TArg6 t6, TArg7 t7, TArg8 t8, I** ppI)
     {
         HRESULT hr = S_OK;
         T* pT = NULL;

         // Creation code here...

         if (hr >= 0)
         {
             hr = __Init(pT, t1, t2, t3, t4, t5, t6, t7, t8);
         }
         else
         {
             return E_OUTOFMEMORY;
         }

         if (hr >= 0)
         {
             *ppI = pT;
             hr = S_OK;
         }

         return hr;
     }

     template <class TArg1, class TArg2, class TArg3, class TArg4,
class TArg5,
               class TArg6, class TArg7, class TArg8>
     static HRESULT __Init(__in T* pT, TArg1 t1, TArg2 t2, TArg3 t3,
TArg4 t4,
                           TArg5 t5, TArg6 t6, TArg7 t7, TArg8 t8)
     {
         return pT->Initialize(t1, t2, t3, t4, t5, t6, t7, t8);
     }

     template <class TArg1, class TArg2, class TArg3, class TArg4,
class TArg5,
               class TArg6, class TArg7>
     static HRESULT __Init(__in T* pT, TArg1 t1, TArg2 t2, TArg3 t3,
TArg4 t4,
                           TArg5 t5, TArg6 t6, TArg7 t7, NoArg)
     {
         return pT->Initialize(t1, t2, t3, t4, t5, t6, t7);
     }

     // handle Arguments 6 - 0 via template specialization as above
};

The problem is passing in an instance of some class CFoo calls the
copy constructor. And if I make all the arguments const& then people
cannot do the following:

HRESULT (*PfnCreator)(ISomeInterface* pSomeInterface, IDesiredObject**
ppDesiredObject) =
*ComCreator<CDesiredObject>::Create;

Since the function signature is actually
HRESULT Create(ISomeInterface* const& pSomeInterface, IDesiredObject**
ppDesiredObject);

So I'd like to avoid this as I'd hate for callers to have to go do
this.

I also can't defineCreate as follows

     template <class TArg1, class I>
     static HRESULT Create(TypeTraits<TArg1>::ParameterType t1,
__deref_out I** ppI)
     {
         return Create(t1, NoArg(), NoArg(), NoArg(), NoArg(),
                       NoArg(), NoArg(), NoArg(), ppI);
     }

As this simply can't work since template argument deduction has
already happened to determine the type of TArg1.

Are there any other solutions so this? Again I do *not* want an
ubiquitous const&.

Thanks!

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