Re: Overloaded Streaming Technique
Eric Hill <eric@ijack.net> wrote:
I'm trying to come up with a good method to accomplish conditional
streaming. Specifically, I would like to not incur the cost of
computing the stream parameters if the stream itself is disabled.
std::string get_some_data() { ... }
void go() {
std::ostream example = get_foo_stream();
foo::stream_options options;
// get_some_data will be called
options.enable = true;
example << stream_options << get_some_data();
// get_some_data will NOT be called
options.enable = false;
example << stream_options << get_some_data();
}
I don't really care about how this is accomplished, but I'm not even
sure IF it can be accomplished. Any ideas?
Something along these lines:
template <typename T>
class wrapper {
public:
typedef T (*F)();
wrapper(F f) : f_(f) {}
T operator() () const { return f_(); }
private:
F f_;
};
template <typename T>
wrapper<T> make_wrapper(T (*f)()) { return wrapper<T>(f); }
template <typename T>
ostream& operator<<(ostream& os, const wrapper<T>& w) {
if (!StreamIsDisabled(os)) {
os << w();
}
return os;
}
example << stream_options << make_wrapper(get_some_data);
For more generic solution, boost::function
(http://boost.org/doc/html/function.html) may be useful.
stream_options can mark the stream as enabled or disabled with xalloc
and iword methods.
--
With best wishes,
Igor Tandetnik
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