Container with iterator of list - maintain natural order with another specific order

From:
"P. Areias" <pedromiguelareias@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:22:46 CST
Message-ID:
<1b11c973-7875-4886-be28-9b1eb13a144f@o4g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>
I searched comp.lang.c++.moderated and couldn't find a solution for
this problem:

Often, it is necessary to maintain a container which must be kept in
order of insertion but also searched for a specific value. If we store
a std::list iterator in a unordered_map, this is possible. A possible
solution is attached (uses 0X). Only a const_iterator is implemented,
to keep this post short.

#pragma once
#include <unordered_map>
#include <vector>
#include <list>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
/* this is a const_iterator to travel along a bmap */
template<typename T>
struct slistit
{
public:
    slistit(const typename list<T>::const_iterator& rhs):index(rhs){}
    slistit(const slistit<T>& rhs):index(rhs.index){}
    bool operator==(const slistit&rhs) const
    {
        return index==rhs.index;
    }
    bool operator!=(const slistit&rhs) const
    {
        return index!=rhs.index;
    }
    T operator*() const
    {
        return *index;
    }
    typename list<T>::const_iterator & operator++() // prefix
    {
        ++index;
        return index;
    }
    typename list<T>::const_iterator operator++(int gash) // postfix
    {
        typename list<T>::const_iterator tmp=index;
        index++;
        return tmp;
    }
protected:
    typename list<T>::const_iterator index;
};
/* this is a bmap: a combination of a sorted and non-sorted list */
template<typename T>
struct slist
{
protected:
    friend struct slistit<T>;
    unordered_map<T,typename list<T>::iterator > m;
    list<T> n;
public:
    typedef slistit<T> const_iterator;
    bool empty() const
    {
        return n.empty();
    }
    unsigned size() const
    {
        return n.size();
    }
    slist(){}
    ~slist()
    {
        n.clear();
        m.clear();
    }
    slist(const slist<T>&rhs)
    {
        n=rhs.n;
        for(auto it=n.begin();it!=n.end();++it)
            m[*it]=it;
    }
    slist<T>& operator=(const slist<T>&rhs){
        if(this!=&rhs)
        {
            n.clear();
            m.clear();
            n=rhs.n;
            for(auto it=n.begin();it!=n.end();++it)
                m[*it]=it;
        }
        return(*this);
    }
    bool operator==(const slist<T>&rhs)
    {
        if(this!=&rhs)
        {
            if(n.size()==rhs.n.size())
            {
                auto it=m.begin();
                auto jt=rhs.m.begin();
                for(;(it!=m.end())&&(jt!=rhs.m.end());it++,jt++)
                {
                    if(it->first!=jt->first)return(false);
                }
            }
            else
                return(false);
        }
        return(true);
    }
    bool operator!=(const slist<T>&rhs)
    {
        return(!*this==rhs);
    }
    bool operator<(const slist<T>&rhs)
    {
        if(this!=&rhs)
        {
            if(n.size()==rhs.n.size())
            {
                auto it=m.begin();
                auto jt=rhs.m.begin();
                for(;it!=m.end()&&jt!=rhs.m.end();it++,jt++)
                {
                    if(it->first<jt->first)return(true);
                    if(it->first>jt->first)return(false);
                }
            }
            else
                return(n.size()<rhs.n.size());
        }
        return(false);
    }
    void insert(const T& t)
    {
        if(m.find(t)==m.end())
        {
            n.push_back(t);
            auto it=n.end();
            it--;
            m[t]=it;
        }
    }
    void erase(const T& t)
    {
        if(m.find(t)!=m.end())
        {
            auto it=m[t];
            n.erase(it);
            m.erase(t);
        }
    }
    void replace(const T& told,const T& tnew)
    {
        if(m.find(told)!=m.end())
        {
            auto it=m[told];
            *it=tnew;
            m[tnew]=it;
            m.erase(told);
        }
    }
    void clear()
    {
        n.clear();
        m.clear();
    }
    const_iterator begin() const
    {
        return const_iterator(n.begin());
    }
    const_iterator end() const
    {
        return const_iterator(n.end());
    }
    vector<T> tovector() const
    {
        vector<T> res;
        for(auto it=n.begin();it!=n.end();++it)
            res.push_back(*it);
        return(res);
    }
    vector<T> tosortedvector() const
    {
        vector<T> res;
        for(auto it=m.begin();it!=m.end();++it)
        {
            res.push_back(it->first);
        }
        return res;
    }
};
template<typename T>
ostream& operator<<(ostream&os,const slist<T>& rhs)
{
    os<<rhs.size()<<" ";
    for(auto it=rhs.begin();it!=rhs.end();++it)
        os<<*it<<" ";
    os<<endl;
    return(os);
}
template<typename T>
istream& operator>>(istream&is,slist<T>& rhs)
{
    rhs.clear();
    unsigned size;
    is>>size;
    for(unsigned it=0;it!=size;++it)
    {
        T val;
        is>>val;
        rhs.insert(val);
    }
    return(is);
}

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