Re: problem storing different iterators in a container

From:
Junchen WANG <WangJunchen@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:02:10 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<fea7f733-26d7-4c68-90c6-7f37230c568a@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com>
On 3=D4 16=C8=D5, =CF =CE=E79=CA=B125=B7=D6, Lutz Altmann <lutz.altm...@=
mastersong.de> wrote:

Hi there :)

I'm trying to write a functor-class, which supports the de-
multiplexing of data from one
input-container to two or multiple output containers (de-
interleaving).

For example:

vec1 = [1 5 2 6 3 7]

#demultiplex vec1 -> result1,result2

result1 = [1 2 3]
result2 = [5 6 7]

The idea is, to provide a functor-class , which makes the de-
multiplexing very easy to use:
It should be possible to do soemthing like this:

snip<


DemuxFunctor func;
func.addChannel(output_iter);
func.addChannel(output_iter2);
..
..
for_each(input_vec.begin(),input_vec.end(),func);

snip<


It should be possible to "register" iterators to which the functor
writes the output-data.

here is my draft :

#include <vector>
#include <iterator>

using namespace std;

template<typename T>
class DemuxFunctor : public unary_function<void,T>
{

public:

    DemuxFunctor():m_current(0){}

    void operator()(const T& arg)
    {
        // add arg to one of the iterators
        *(m_outchannels(m_current)) = arg;
        // step ahead
        (m_outchannels(m_current))++;

        if (m_current >= m_outchannels.size())
        {
            m_current = 0;
        }
        else
        {
            m_current++;
        }

    }

    template<typename X>
    void addChannel(insert_iterator<X>& iter)
    {
        m_outchannels.push_back(iter);
    }

private:

   // PROBLEM : how to declare this vector !!!
    vector<insert_iterator&> m_outchannels;..

    unsigned int m_current;

};

The Problem is, that i have to save the (registered) iterators in a
data-structure - but because
different kinds of iterators (vectors,lists..) should be possible i
dont know how to declare the
iterator-vector .. is there a solution?!
Maybe you also have some princible comments to the design.

Regards,
Lutz


#include <vector>
#include <iterator>
#include <functional>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

template<typename T>
class DemuxFunctor : public unary_function<void,T>
{
public:
    DemuxFunctor():m_current(0){}
private:
    class AbstractWrapper
    {
    public:
        virtual void operator = (const T & arg) = 0;
        virtual void operator ++ (int) = 0;
    };
public:
    template<typename IterType>
    class WrapperIterator : public AbstractWrapper
    {
    public:
        WrapperIterator(IterType & it) : _iter(it)
        {

        }
        void operator = (const T & arg)
        {
            *_iter = arg;
        }
        void operator ++ (int)
        {
            _iter ++;
        }
    private:
        IterType & _iter;
    };
    void operator()(const T& arg)
    {
        // add arg to one of the iterators
        *m_outchannels[m_current] = arg;
        // step ahead
        (*m_outchannels[m_current ++]) ++;
        if (m_current >= m_outchannels.size())
        {
            m_current = 0;
        }
    }
    void addChannel(AbstractWrapper *iter)
    {
        m_outchannels.push_back(iter);
    }
private:
    // PROBLEM : how to declare this vector !!!
    vector<AbstractWrapper *> m_outchannels;
    unsigned int m_current;
};

int main()
{
    int buffer[] = {1, 2};
    vector<int> a;
    vector<int> b;
    insert_iterator<vector<int> > ita(a, a.begin());
    insert_iterator<vector<int> > itb(b, b.begin()) ;
    DemuxFunctor<int>::WrapperIterator< insert_iterator<vector<int> > >
wa(ita);
    DemuxFunctor<int>::WrapperIterator< insert_iterator<vector<int> > >
wb(itb);
    DemuxFunctor<int> df;
    df.addChannel(&wa);
    df.addChannel(&wb);
    for (int i = 0; i < 5; ++i)
    {
        df(i);
    }
    copy(a.begin(), a.end(), ostream_iterator<int>(cout, " "));
    cout << endl;
    copy(b.begin(), b.end(), ostream_iterator<int>(cout, " "));
    cout << endl;
}
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hope you may enjoy it~

Best Regards,
Junchen

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