shared_ptr problems

From:
cpisztest@gmail.com
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 14:34:39 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
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I wasn't around at design time, but I get to fix the problem...story of my =
life!

I know about boost::weak_ptr and would use that if the problem was limited =
to
classes A and B, but C has a public accessor that gives away shared_ptrs to=
 As and I don't know what to do there.

I was thinking of trying to guarentee that Bs and Cs are only created by As=
 and seeing if the compiler complained or not (unknown code base). If I can=
 guarentee that Bs and Cs are only created by and used by As, then I can sa=
fely use weak_ptrs...I think. I could do that by hiding constructors of Bs =
and Cs making them private and friending them to A....I think.

Any thoughts/ideas?

The mess where nothing gets destroyed:

-----
#ifndef A_H
#define A_H

#include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>
#include <boost/enable_shared_from_this.hpp>

#include <list>

class B;
class C;

class A : public boost::enable_shared_from_this<A>
{
public:

    typedef boost::shared_ptr<A> SharedPtr;
    
    A();
    ~A();

    void Foo();

private:

    std::list<B *> m_collectionOfBs;

    void CleanupBs();
};

#endif
-----
#ifndef B_H
#define B_H

#include "A.h"
#include "C.h"

//--------
class B
{
public:

    B(A::SharedPtr a);
    ~B();

private:

    C m_c;
};

#endif
-----
#ifndef C_H
#define C_H

#include "A.h"

class C
{
public:

    C(A::SharedPtr a);
    ~C();

    A::SharedPtr GetA();

private:

    A::SharedPtr m_a;
};

#endif
-----

#include "A.h"
#include "B.h"

A::A()
{
}

A::~A()
{
    CleanupBs();
}

void A::Foo()
{
    B * newbie = new B(shared_from_this());
    m_collectionOfBs.push_back(newbie);
}

void A::CleanupBs()
{
    std::list<B *>::iterator it = m_collectionOfBs.begin();

    while (!m_collectionOfBs.empty() &&
        it != m_collectionOfBs.end())
    {
        delete (*it);
        it = m_collectionOfBs.erase(it);
    }
}
-----
#include "B.h"

B::B(A::SharedPtr a)
    :
    m_c(a)
{
}

B::~B()
{
}
-----
#include "C.h"

C::C(A::SharedPtr a)
    :
    m_a(a)
{
}

C::~C()
{
}

A::SharedPtr C::GetA()
{
    return m_a;
}
-----
#include "A.h"

int main()
{
    A::SharedPtr a(new A());
    a->Foo();

    return 0;
}

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