Re: how to implement a simple class forname?

From:
"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:26:58 -0400
Message-ID:
<e9m4il$cnv$1@news.datemas.de>
Manuel wrote:

[..]
well. I think that this is not neccesary because in the end the
methods will be of the same class.

i make this:

FACTORY_H

typedef void (*PtrMethod)(std::vector<std::string>);

class Factory
{
private:
map<const char*, PtrMethod*, ltstr> theMap;

protected:
Factory();

~Factory();

               Object * method1(std::vector<std::string>);
               Object * method2(std::vector<std::string>);

public:
               Object *
getObject(std::string,std::vector<std::string>);
};

FACTORY_CPP

Factory::Factory()
{
      map["method1"] = &method1;
      map["method2"] = &method2;
}

Object * Factory::getObject(string label,vector<string> paramaters)
{
PtrMethod method = theMap[label];
Object * object = (*method)(parameters);
return energia;
}

is it correct? what do you think?


Close, but incorrect. If your 'method1' and 'method2' return Object*,
you cannot declare 'PtrMethod' as returning "void". You have to make
sure the type is the same as the functions. That's the glaring error.

Then 'Factory::getObject' returns 'energia' where it should probably
return 'object'.

Not so important ones include passing by value where passing by const
reference should be sufficient.

V
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