C++11 Wrapper Class

From:
jz bnk <iwg.molw5@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 16 Dec 2012 02:57:56 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<c87b8762-2b59-454a-b9ef-10085c32174d@googlegroups.com>
Suppose I wanted to extend the interface of an arbitrary base class
reference in C++11, while still preserving the original interface. I
could accomplish this as follows:

template <typename T>
class Wrapper : public T
{
    public:
        Wrapper (T& base)
            : T(std::move(base)),
              original(base)
        {
        }

        ~Wrapper ()
        {
            original = std::move(static_cast <T&> (*this));
        }

        void f () {}

    private:
        T& original;
};

I'm not particularly happy with the above design - aside from the obvious
implicit lifetime constraints Wrapper requires any other references to
base are invalidated for the duration of lifetime (although their use
should still be well-formed if I understand move-semantics here).
Ideally, Wrapper should not alter base - something similar to the
following would suffice:

template <typename T>
class Wrapper
{
    public:
        Wrapper (T& base)
            : reference(base)
        {
        }

        ~Wrapper ()
        {
            original = std::move(static_cast <T&> (*this));
        }

        template <typename... Args>
        auto g (Args... args) ->
        decltype(std::declval <T> ().g(std::forward <Args> (args...)))
        {
            return reference.g(std::forward <Args> (args...));
        }

        void f () {}

    private:
        T& reference;
};

provided the names and const correctness of the methods exposed by T were
known a priori, which I can't assume. Is there a better pattern I could
be using here? If not, is the first Wrapper class well-formed and are
there additional concerns I've overlooked there?

My use-case for this sort of construct is a serialization function - a
parent container's read/write function is called to serialize a
collection of sub-objects. Some of the sub-objects require additional
data provided by the Wrapper construct, the remaining sub-objects need
to function properly when used with or without the wrapper. Something
along the lines of the following would be a reasonable facsimile here:

template <typename Child>
struct reader <Container <Child>>
{
    template <typename Input, typename Output>
    static bool read (Input& in, Output& out)
    {
        Wrapper w_in(in);
        return reader <Child>::read(w_in, out);
    }
};

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