Re: [RFC] mettle, a C++14 unit test library

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red floyd <no.spam.here@its.invalid>

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comp.lang.c++.moderated

Date:

Tue, 3 Jun 2014 14:34:27 CST

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On 6/3/2014 8:13 AM, Ian Collins wrote:

I'd be interested in a non-macro version of this from my
own code:

#define SIMPLE_TRAITS( Type, Index ) \
    struct Traits_##Type { \
      typedef Type##_t ValueType; \
      static const data_type_t dataType = Index; \
      static const bool isArrayType = false; \
      static void lookup( nvlist_t*, const char*, ValueType* ); \
      static void get( nvpair*, ValueType* ); \
    };

Here (before I can dream of proposing some non-macro solution) I need
to know what traits these are and how are made and used. What is
that 'Index' and how is it decided?

An enum.

Given that, what's wrong with:

template<typename Type, data_type_t Index>
struct traits_t {
    typedef Type ValueType;
    static const data_type_t dataType = Index;
    static const bool isArrayType = false;
    static void lookup( nvlist_t*, const char*, ValueType*);
    static void get(nvpair*, ValueType*);
};

typedef traits_t<SomeType_t, someEnumValue> Traits_SomeType;

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