Re: Storing variable arguments for future use in C++?

From:
Rolf Magnus <ramagnus@t-online.de>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 29 May 2006 14:07:42 +0200
Message-ID:
<e5eo6f$603$02$1@news.t-online.com>
prasanthag@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,
 I am a newbie to this group. I have a problem in handling the variable

arguments passed to a function. My requirement is like this.

I have 2 functions say,

void funcX(int i, int j);
void funcY(int i, int j,char *name);

Now I want to register this function some how and store the variable
arguments ( and store defualt values) for future use

RegisterFunc(funcX,10,20);
RegisterFunc(funcY,50,60,"MyName");

( Here I want to know how I can register and store the variable
arguments and function pointers, so that it can be used at a later
point to invoke the same)

Now at a later point I want to evoke these store functions in a
sequential order.

CallFuncs()
{
      //Invoke funcX with values registered here;
      //Invoke funcY with values registered here;

}

I was trying to use va_args with C and somehow i was not able to be
successful.


Those cannot be used for what you want.

If anybody have a better suggestion/design on how to do it,
please let me know.


You could use function objects.

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>

class Func
{
public:
    virtual void operator()() = 0;
};

class FuncX : public Func
{
public:
    FuncX(int i, int j)
        : i_(i), j_(j)
    {}
    void operator()()
    {
        std::cout << i_ << '+' << j_ << '=' << i_+j_ << '\n';
    }
private:
    int i_, j_;
};

class FuncY: public Func
{
public:
    FuncY(int i, int j, const char* name)
        : i_(i), j_(j), name_(name)
    {
    }
    void operator()()
    {
        std::cout << name_ << '=' << i_ << '+' << j_ << '\n';
    }
private:
    int i_, j_;
    const char* name_;
};

std::vector<Func*> funcs;

void RegisterFunc(Func* func)
{
    funcs.push_back(func);
};

void CallFuncs()
{
    for (std::vector<Func*>::iterator it = funcs.begin(), end = funcs.end();
         it != end; ++it)
    {
        (**it)();
    }
}

void CleanUp()
{
    for (std::vector<Func*>::iterator it = funcs.begin(), end = funcs.end();
         it != end; ++it)
    {
        delete *it;
    }
    funcs.clear();
}
 
int main()
{
    RegisterFunc(new FuncX(10, 20));
    RegisterFunc(new FuncY(50, 60, "MyName"));
    CallFuncs();
    CleanUp();
}

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