Re: Object Oriented Design Contest

From:
ajk <usenetonly@doh.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:22:55 GMT
Message-ID:
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On 31 Mar 2007 17:18:29 -0700, virtualadepts@gmail.com wrote:

#include <utility>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <map>

using namespace std;

class Bookz : public map<string, string>
{

public:
    Bookz() {
     cout << "Welcome to the database. Enter information, and type 'end'
to stop."<< endl;
     cout << "Name: ";
     }
   void add(string name, string number){
    typedef pair <string, string> b_Pair;
    insert( b_Pair(name, number) );
   }
    ~Bookz(){}
    void search_Name(string lookup_Num){
        map <string, string> :: const_iterator b_Name;
        b_Name = find(lookup_Num);
        cout << b_Name -> second << "." << endl;
                       }
};

int main( void ) {
  Bookz keeper;

   string s="";
      string n="";
   while (s!="end" || n!="end")
   {
         cin >> s;
          if(s=="end")
      {
        cout <<"Finished inputing data."<<endl<<endl;
        break;
      }
          cout<<"Number: ";
         cin >> n;
          if(n=="end")
      {
        cout <<"Finished inputing data."<<endl<<endl;
        break;
      }
          keeper.add(s,n);
          cout <<"Name: ";
      }
     cout << "To search the...r. 'quit' exists."<< endl;
   while (s != "quit")
   {
       cout<<"$ ";
           cin >> s;
           keeper.search_Name(s);
        }

      if (s == "quit")
   {
        cout<<"Goodbye."<<endl;;
   }
    }

Why are you inheriting from the map template? it is better design to
add map<string,string> member variable in your class. then use
insert/find on that member variable

the map<> is used for hash tables but adding IO in it is not a good
design (if u don't add it for debugging purposes).

Always try to keep your design simple, if you derive from map<> and
adding all this cout's in your class you are not having a clean design
and the chances are that you will never be able reuse your class
as-is.

hth/ajk

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