Re: Ideas for strong guarantee?
<thiago.adams@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi All,
I'm using exceptions to report errors in my code and I think that it
is a good idea. But in some circumstances is hard to implement a
strong
guarantee for functions.
I would like suggestions for the code below:
class X {
std::vector<Type*> m_vec1;
std::vector<Type*> m_vec2;
void func()
{
Type * p1 = new Type();
Type * p2 = new Type();
m_vec1.push_back(p1);
m_vec2.push_back(p2);
}
};
// partial solution...
void func()
{
std::auto_ptr<Type> sp1(new Type());
std::auto_ptr<Type> sp2(new Type());
m_vec1.push_back(sp1.get()); //
sp1.release();
m_vec2.push_back(sp2.get()); //
sp2.release();
}
This solution is almost correct, but if some exceptions occurs at
second push_back I need to keep m_vec1 unchanged.
How handle this situation?
The common (and expensive) solution to provide a strong guarantee for
a sequence
of potentially throwing expressions is to make a copy on the side and
make
non-throwing swaps in the end. In your case, since you keep pointers in
containers, you need to either use another container that cleans up
after
itself, or use smart pointer to do the cleanup.
E.g.
void func()
{
shared_ptr<Type> sp1(new Type);
shared_ptr<Type> sp2(new Type);
std::vector<shared_ptr<Type> > copy1(m_vec1);
copy1.push_back(sp1);
std::vector<shared_ptr<Type> > copy2(m_vec2);
copy2.push_back(sp2); //
// now swap them
m_vec1.swap(copy1);
m_vec2.swap(copy2);
}
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