Re: class with a map

From:
mosfet <john.doe@anonymous.org>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:58:39 +0200
Message-ID:
<46f7b47f$0$19230$426a74cc@news.free.fr>
DJ a ??crit :

mosfet napisa??(a):

Hi,

I would like to write a class storing http headers so Istarted with
this :

class WebHeaderCollection
{
private:
    std::map<tstring, tstring> m_KeyValueMap;

public:

    tstring& operator[](const tstring& Keyval)
    {
        tstring sTmp = Keyval + _T("\r\n");
        return m_KeyValueMap[ Keyval ];
    }
};

This class appends \r\n to each key entry.
My question is how can I give access to all the standard operations of
a map.
The simple solution would have been to derive from std::map but it
seems to be a bad idea to derive from STL containers.

So does it mean I need to provide an iterator, an overload operator
like I did, ...


1. std::map<tstring, tstring> get_http_headers() member to access
private map member

2. Class WebHeaderCollection : public std::map<tstring, tstring>
{ ... and you have iterators there


Thanks but solution 1 is not suitable in my case because I also need to
prevent user to add specific keys (accept, content-type, ...)

And in solution 2, I was told it's bad to derive from container...

That's why I was thinking of writing a class with a map inside.

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