Re: Facing problem while pushing derived class pointers of a template class into to a STL list

From:
"Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]" <cpdaniel_remove_this_and_nospam@mvps.org.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.stl
Date:
Sat, 2 Aug 2008 06:36:36 -0700
Message-ID:
<eZg5NTK9IHA.4004@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>
Shilpa Uttarwar wrote:

Platform : Windows XP, VisualStudio2005, VC++

Hello,

I am facing problem while pushing derived class pointers of a
template class into to a STL list.

The base class is a template class:

template <class TAccessor, template <typename T> class TRowset =
CRowset>
class CDETAILOleDBSet: public CABIOleDbSet<TAccessor, TRowset>, public
CDETAILBaseSet

2. I have declared a list container to hold pointers of this
class as:
template <class TAccessor, template <typename T> class TRowset =
CRowset> class CDETAILOleDBSet;
typedef std::list<CDETAILOleDBSet* >tDetailOleDBRecSetCont;


This is not legal code and should not compile - CDETAILOleDbSet is not a
class, it's a template. You cannot declare a pointer to a template, only to
an instantiation of the template. The actual base class of your concrete
class is:

CDETAILOleDbSet<CAccessor<CComDetailOleDBSetAccessor>, CRowset>

so your list should be:

typedef std::list<
    CDETAILOleDbSet<
        CAccessor<CComDetailOleDBSetAccessor>,
        CRowset>
    > tDetailOleDBRecSetCont;

Or perhaps you didn't post the actual code...? As Joe responded, a minimal
complete program that illustrates the problem is very helpful in diagnosing
exactly what's wrong.

-cd

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