Re: partial template specialization

From:
=?iso-8859-1?q?Daniel_Kr=FCgler?= <daniel.kruegler@googlemail.com>
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Date:
Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:01:47 CST
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On 10 Okt., 13:01, Tomcat <tomek.kaczyn...@gmail.com> wrote:

   Can you help me with a problem i have with a partial template
specialization, let's say i want to specialize template AB for a
container sdt::deque or any other. Is there any way to have all
methods and properties from 'general' AB and to specialize only
ONE method ? I think i coud do that using multiple inheritance,
is there any other way ?


This is only possible, if you fully specialize the member in
*all* template parameters (No unknown template parameters).
This does not work here, since T and Alloc are still "open")

el = buf.last();


I guess you meant:

el = buf.back();

template<class T,class Alloc


Should have probably written as

template<class T,class Alloc>

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])


I read this as:

int main(int argc, char* argv[])

As usual, a little indirection helps here. The trick
is to partially specialize another class template:

#include <vector>
#include <deque>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

template<class T, template <class,class> class Cont,
typename Alloc>
struct ContHandler;

template<class T, template <class,class> class Cont,
typename Alloc = allocator<T> >
class AB{
   template<class TT, template <class,class> class CC,
   typename AA>
   friend struct ::ContHandler;
public:
         typedef Cont<T,Alloc> tCont;
         tCont buf;

         void write(T & el){
           ContHandler<T, Cont, Alloc>::do_write(*this,
               el);
         }

         void read(T & el){
                 el = buf.back();
         }
};

template<class T, template <class,class> class Cont,
   typename Alloc>
struct ContHandler {
   static void do_write(AB<T, Cont, Alloc>& that,
    T& el) {
      cout << "general" << endl;
      that.buf.push_back(el);
   }
};

template<class T, typename Alloc>
struct ContHandler<T, std::deque, Alloc> {
   static void do_write(AB<T, std::deque, Alloc>& that,
    T& el) {
     cout << "specialized" << endl;
     std::deque<T,Alloc> buf;
     that.buf.push_front(el);
   }
};

class A{
public:
     ~A(){ cout<< "destructor" << endl;}
};

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
         AB<A,std::vector> Buf;
         A b;
         Buf.write(b);
         Buf.read(b);

         AB<A,std::deque> Buf2;
         A c;
         Buf2.write(c);
         Buf2.read(c);
}

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Daniel Kr?gler

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