lumiera_/src/lib/format-string.hpp
Ichthyostega 962c789a05 a horrible hack to guess the size of boost::format
...without actually including the boost/format.hpp
This saves us a lot of compilation time and debug code size
2011-12-28 06:41:37 +01:00

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/*
FORMAT-STRING.hpp - string template formatting based on boost::format
Copyright (C) Lumiera.org
2011, Hermann Vosseler <Ichthyostega@web.de>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
*/
/** @file format-string.hpp
** Front-end for printf-style string template interpolation.
** While the actual implementation just delegates to boost::format, this front-end
** hides the direct dependency, additionally invokes a custom toSting conversion
** whenever possible, provides a direct conversion to string and catches any exceptions.
** This front-end is used pervasively for diagnostics and logging, so keeping down the
** compilation and object size cost and reliably handling any error is more important
** than the (small) performance gain of directly invoking boost::format (which is
** known to be 10 times slower than printf anyway).
**
** @remarks The implementation is invoked through a set of explicit specialisations.
** For custom types, we prefer to invoke operator string(), which is determined
** by a directly coded metaprogramming test. The compile time and object size
** overhead incurred by using this header was verified to be negligible.
**
** @see FormatString_test
** @see format-helper
**
*/
#ifndef UTIL_FORMAT_STRING_H
#define UTIL_FORMAT_STRING_H
//#include "lib/symbol.hpp"
//#include "lib/util.hpp"
#include "lib/error.hpp"
#include "lib/meta/size-trait.hpp"
#include <string>
//#include <cstring>
#include <typeinfo>
//#include <boost/lexical_cast.hpp>
#include <boost/noncopyable.hpp>
#include <boost/utility/enable_if.hpp>
namespace std { // forward declaration to avoid including <iostream>
template<typename C>
class char_traits;
template<typename C, class _TRAITS>
class basic_ostream;
typedef basic_ostream<char, char_traits<char> > ostream;
}
namespace util {
using boost::enable_if;
//using util::isnil;
using std::string;
/**
* @todo write type comment
*/
class _Fmt
: boost::noncopyable
{
/** size of an internal implementation Buffer */
enum{ FORMATTER_SIZE = lib::meta::SizeTrait::BOOST_FORMAT };
/** @internal buffer to hold a boost::format */
char formatter_[FORMATTER_SIZE];
template<typename VAL, class SEL =void>
struct Converter;
template<typename VAL>
void pushParameter (VAL const&);
template<typename VAL>
void pushParameter (const VAL * const);
public:
_Fmt (string formatString);
operator string() const;
template<typename VAL>
_Fmt&
operator% (VAL const&);
friend std::ostream&
operator<< (std::ostream& os, _Fmt const&);
friend bool operator== (_Fmt const&, _Fmt const&);
friend bool operator== (_Fmt const&, string const&);
friend bool operator== (_Fmt const&, const char * const);
friend bool operator== (string const& , _Fmt const&);
friend bool operator== (const char * const, _Fmt const&);
template<typename X>
friend bool operator != (_Fmt const& fmt, X const& x) { return !(fmt == x); }
template<typename X>
friend bool operator != (X const& x, _Fmt const& fmt) { return !(x == fmt); }
};
/* ===== forwarding into the implementation ====== */
/** The percent operator (\c '%' ) is used do feed
* additional parameter values to be included into
* the formatted result, at the positions marked
* within the format string.
*
* \par type specific treatment
* Basic types (numbers, chars, strings) are passed to the implementation
* (= boost::format) literally. For custom types, we try to use an custom
* string conversion, if applicable. Any other type gets just translated
* into a type-ID (using the mangled RTTI info). In case of errors during
* the conversion, a string representation of the error is returned
* @param val arbitrary value or pointer to be included into the result
* @warning you need to provide exactly the right number of parameters,
* i.e. matching the number of fields in the format string.
*/
template<typename VAL>
inline _Fmt&
_Fmt::operator% (VAL const& val)
{
pushParameter (Converter<VAL>::prepare (val));
return *this;
}
namespace { // helpers to pick a suitable specialisation....
template<typename X>
struct _can_convertToString
{
enum{ value = false };
};
/**
* by default we don't allow to
* treat any types directly by boost::format.
* As fallback we rather just produce a type-ID
*/
template<typename X>
struct _can_forward { enum{ value = false };};
/* the following definitions enable some basic types
* to be forwarded to boost::format literally */
template<> struct _can_forward<string> { enum{ value = true }; };
template<> struct _can_forward<int> { enum{ value = true }; };
template<> struct _can_forward<uint> { enum{ value = true }; };
inline string
_log_and_stringify (std::exception const& ex)
{
WARN (progress, "Error while invoking custom string conversion: %s", ex.what());
return ex.what();
}
inline string
_log_unknown_exception()
{
const char* errID = lumiera_error();
if (errID)
{
ERROR (progress, "Unknown error while invoking custom string conversion. Lumiera error flag = %s", errID);
return string("Unknown error in string conversion. FLAG=")+errID;
}
else
{
ERROR (progress, "Unknown error while invoking custom string conversion. No Lumiera error flag set.");
return "Unknown error in string conversion";
}
}
}//(End) guards/helpers
/* === explicit specialisations to control the kind of conversion === */
template<typename VAL, class SEL>
struct _Fmt::Converter
{
static string
prepare (VAL const&)
{
UNIMPLEMENTED ("get type string");
}
};
template<typename VAL>
struct _Fmt::Converter<VAL, typename enable_if< _can_convertToString<VAL> >::type>
{
static string
prepare (VAL const& val)
try {
return string(val);
}
catch(std::exception const& ex)
{
return _log_and_stringify(ex);
}
catch(...)
{
return _log_unknown_exception();
}
};
template<typename VAL>
struct _Fmt::Converter<VAL, typename enable_if< _can_forward<VAL> >::type>
{
static VAL const&
prepare (VAL const& val)
{
return val;
}
};
template<typename VAL>
struct _Fmt::Converter<VAL*, typename enable_if< _can_forward<VAL> >::type>
{
static const VAL *
prepare (const VAL * const pVal)
{
return pVal;
}
};
/* === comparison of formatter objects === */
inline bool
operator== (_Fmt const& left, _Fmt const& right)
{
return string(left) == string(right);
}
inline bool
operator== (_Fmt const& fmt, string const& str)
{
return string(fmt) == str;
}
inline bool
operator== (_Fmt const& fmt, const char * const cString)
{
return string(fmt) == string(cString);
}
inline bool
operator== (string const& str, _Fmt const& fmt)
{
return fmt == str;
}
inline bool
operator== (const char * const cString, _Fmt const& fmt)
{
return fmt == cString;
}
} // namespace util
#endif /*UTIL_FORMAT_STRING_H*/