Re: class that have a member of type that's derived from it
Mirko Puhic wrote:
In case I want Derived object to be created in Base constructor:
Why would you want do to that? Base can only be constructed upon
instantiating derived anyway....
Derived d;//...
constructs base implicitly, and the pointer in base becomes a valid
derived...
template <class DerivedT>
struct Base
{
Derived* getDerived(){ return dynamic_cast<DerivedT*>(this); }
};
class Derived : public Base<Derived>{ /*...*/ };
Derived::Derived
: Base<Derived>()
{
//From this point onwards, we can no obtain valid derived pointer...
}
int main()
{
Derived d;
Base<Derived>* pb( &d );
pb->getDerived()->foo();//would work assuming Derived had member
function foo...
return 0;
}
class Derived;
class Base{
public:
Base(){
der = new Derived();
}
Derived * der;
};
You don't need to assign a new Derived to der, you don't even need a
der as this is implicitly already a pointer to the derived class if you
cast it, provided Derived is truly inherited from Base (which one can
enforce, btw).
Kind regards,
Werner
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