attempt to make factory invocation more evident in the code

...but the whole design looks still overengineered. See #388

- should get rid of the explicit specialisation
- always use a function signature and thus have arguments?
- why inheriting from the wrapper?

src/common/query/query-resolver.cpp

@@ -53,10 +53,10 @@ namespace lumiera {
   
   /** factory used as dispatcher table
    *  for resolving typed queries  */
-  typedef MultiFact< Resolution(Goal const&) // nominal signature of fabrication
-                   , Goal::QueryID          //  select resolution function by kind-of-Query
-                   , BuildRefcountPtr      //   wrapper: manage result set by smart-ptr
-                   > DispatcherTable;     //
+  typedef MultiFact< Resolution(Goal const&)  // nominal signature of fabrication
+                   , Goal::QueryID           //  select resolution function by kind-of-Query
+                   , BuildRefcountPtr       //   wrapper: manage result set by smart-ptr
+                   > DispatcherTable;      //
   
   /** PImpl of the generic QueryResolver */
   struct QueryDispatcher
@@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ namespace lumiera {
           QID qID = query.getQID();
           ENSURE (contains (qID));
           
-          return (*this) (qID, query); 
-        }               //qID picks the resolution function
+          return this->invokeFactory (qID, query);
+        }                    // qID picks the resolution function
     };
   
   
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ namespace lumiera {
   
   
   void
-  QueryResolver::installResolutionCase (QID qID, function<Resolution*(Goal const&)> resolutionFun)
+  QueryResolver::installResolutionCase (QID qID, ResolutionMechanism resolutionFun)
   {
     ENSURE (!dispatcher_->contains (qID),
             "duplicate registration of query resolution function");

src/common/query/query-resolver.hpp

@@ -125,8 +125,10 @@ namespace lumiera {
       
       virtual bool canHandleQuery (Goal::QueryID const&)  const =0;
       
+      using ResolutionMechanism = function<Resolution*(Goal const&)>;
+      
       void installResolutionCase (Goal::QueryID const&,
-                                  function<Resolution*(Goal const&)>);
+                                  ResolutionMechanism);
       
       QueryResolver();
     };

src/lib/multifact-arg.hpp

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 /** @file multifact-arg.hpp
  ** Extension allowing the MultiFact to pass arguments to the fabrication.
  ** This extension is implemented by template specialisations and thus kicks in
- ** when specifying a function \em signature as factory "product type". The resulting
+ ** when specifying a <i>function signature</i> as factory "product type". The resulting
  ** factory class exposes a function call operator matching this signature, additionally
  ** expecting the ID (to select the specific fabrication function) as first parameter.
  ** 
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
  **       should yield the product in a form suitable to be accepted by the
  **       wrapper. E.g., when building smart-ptrs, the fabrication function
  **       should actually deliver a raw pointer to a heap allocated object.
+ ** @todo still way to convoluted design. We can do better //////////TICKET #388
  ** 
  ** @see multifact-argument-test.cpp
  ** @see query-resolver.cpp usage example
@@ -115,6 +116,13 @@ namespace lib {
             return this->wrap (func(arg));
           }
         
+        Product
+        invokeFactory (ID const& id, ARG arg)  ///< alias for the function operator
+          {
+            return this->operator() (id, arg);
+          }
+        
+        
       };
     
     

src/lib/multifact.hpp

@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
  ** 
  ** @note there is an extension header, multifact-arg.hpp, which provides template specialisations
  **       for the special case when the fabrication functions need additional invocation arguments.
+ ** @todo still way to convoluted design. We can do better //////////TICKET #388
  ** 
  ** @see multifact-test.cpp
  ** @see multifact-argument-test.cpp
@@ -204,6 +205,12 @@ namespace lib {
             return this->wrap (func());
           }
         
+        Product
+        invokeFactory (ID const& id)  ///< alias for the function operator
+          {
+            return this->operator() (id);
+          }
+        
         
         /** to set up a production line,
          *  associated with a specific ID