Re: What to do after the creation of an object with a factory?

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"Michael Tiomkin" <tmk@netvision.net.il>

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Date:

25 Nov 2006 18:05:27 -0500

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Kevin Niu wrote:

Hi,

I am doing a project and in this project we have something similar to an
example in the "Modern C++ Design", which is the one in the Factory

Pattern

chapter.

After we saved the objects drived from shape (points, polylines ect) in to

xml file, we can read them back using the factory pattern. My question is

After an object has been created by a factory, How To Set Its Status?

Say if a SpacialShape has a dozen data members, what is the proper method

set them.

For example,

calss SpacialShape : public class Shape
{
......

private:
string a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n;
};

After I created an object of type SpacialShape, I need to set all the data
members( a to n).
I can read from xml file a vector of pair<string, string> of name and

value,

in my programm
I have to use some thing like

if(p->first == "a")
obj.a = p->second;
else if(p->first == "b")
obj.b = p->second;

.....

As you can see, this is ugly and when I add new data members I have to add
more if else.

Can we do better than this?

  Well, it doesn't look very manageable to have 15 similar attributes
in a class.
In case that they are not frequently used, you can write instead:

   // in the class definition
   std::map<std::string,std::string> data;
  ...
obj.data[p->first] = p->second;

  Michael

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