/* UTIL.hpp - metaprogramming helpers and utilities Copyright (C) Lumiera.org 2008, Hermann Vosseler 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 meta/util.hpp ** Simple and lightweight helpers for metaprogramming and type detection. ** This header is a collection of very basic type detection and metaprogramming utilities. ** @warning indirectly, this header gets included into the majority of compilation units. ** Avoid anything here which increases compilation times or adds much debugging info. ** ** @see MetaUtils_test ** @see trait.hpp ** @see typelist.hpp ** */ #ifndef LIB_META_UTIL_H #define LIB_META_UTIL_H #include #include namespace std { // forward declarations for common smart ptrs template class shared_ptr; template class unique_ptr; } namespace lib { class Literal; class Symbol; namespace meta { /* === conditional definition selector === */ template struct enable_if_c { typedef T type; }; template struct enable_if_c {}; /** SFINAE helper to control the visibility of specialisations and overloads. * \par explanation * This template needs to be interspersed somehow into a type expression, which * is driven by an external, primary type parameter. Thus, it is possible to use * it on an extraneous, possibly default template parameter, or when forming the * return type of a function. The purpose is to remove a given definition from * sight, unless a boolean condition `Cond::value` holds true. In the typical * usage, this condition is suppled by a _metafunction_, i.e. a template, which * detects some feature or other circumstantial condition with the types involved. * @remarks this is a widely used facility, available both from boost and from * the standard library. For the most common case, we roll our own * variant here, which is slightly stripped down and a tiny bit * more concise than the boost variant. This way, we can avoid * a lot of boost inclusions, which always bear some weight. * @see [std::enable_if](http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/types/enable_if) */ template using enable_if = typename enable_if_c::type; template using disable_if = typename enable_if_c::type; /* === building metafunctions === */ /** helper types to detect the overload resolution chosen by the compiler */ typedef char Yes_t; struct No_t { char more_than_one[4]; }; namespace { /** * @internal helper to detect a nested field `TY::type` or `TY::Type. * @remark need to use this indirect detection method, since some of the * type traits from the standard library (notably `std::common_type`) * use a multiple layer deep indirect definition, which fails to be selected * on a simple direct template specialisation. */ template class _DetectNested_TypeResult { template static Yes_t check(typename ZZ::type *); template static Yes_t check(typename X::Type *); template static No_t check(...); public: static const bool value = (sizeof(Yes_t)==sizeof(check(0))); }; } /** helper to check if another metafunction produced a result type */ template struct has_TypeResult : std::bool_constant<_DetectNested_TypeResult::value> { }; /** detect possibility of a conversion to string. * Naive implementation, which first attempts to build a string instance by * implicit conversion, and then tries to invoke an explicit string conversion. * The embedded constant #value will be true in case any of this succeeds. * Might fail in more tricky situations (references, const, volatile) * @see \ref format-obj.hpp more elaborate solution including lexical_cast */ template struct can_convertToString { static Yes_t check_implicit(std::string); static No_t check_implicit(...); template struct Probe { }; template static Yes_t check_explicit(Probe * ); template static No_t check_explicit(...); public: static const bool value = (sizeof(Yes_t)==sizeof(check_implicit (std::declval()))) or (sizeof(Yes_t)==sizeof(check_explicit(0))); }; /** toggle for explicit specialisations */ template using enable_CustomStringConversion = enable_if>; /** Trait template for detecting a typelist type. * For example, this allows to write specialisations * with the help of lib::meta::enable_if * (or the equivalent std::enable_if) */ template class is_Typelist { template static Yes_t check(typename X::List *); template static No_t check(...); public: static const bool value = (sizeof(Yes_t)==sizeof(check(0))); }; /** Trait template to detect presence of a simple function call operator * @note this metafunction fails to detect an overloaded or templated `operator()` */ template class has_FunctionOperator { template struct Probe { }; template static Yes_t check(Probe * ); template static No_t check(...); public: static const bool value = (sizeof(Yes_t)==sizeof(check(0))); }; /* ==== generic string representation ==== */ /** pretty-print an internal C++ type representation * @see \ref format-obj.cpp implementation */ std::string humanReadableTypeID (lib::Literal); /** extract core name component from a raw type spec * @return simple identifier possibly "the" type * @warning implemented lexically, not necessarily correct! */ std::string primaryTypeComponent (lib::Literal); /** build a sanitised ID from full type name */ std::string sanitisedFullTypeName(lib::Literal); /** condense a string and retain only valid identifiers * @return string starting with letter, followed by * letters, digits and underscore */ std::string sanitisedSymbol(std::string const&); /** reverse the effect of C++ name mangling. * @return string in language-level form of a C++ type or object name, * or a string with the original input if demangling fails. * @warning implementation relies on the cross vendor C++ ABI in use * by GCC and compatible compilers, so portability is limited. * The implementation is accessed through libStdC++ * Name representation in emitted object code and type IDs is * essentially an implementation detail and subject to change. */ std::string demangleCxx (lib::Literal rawName); extern const std::string FUNCTION_INDICATOR; extern const std::string FAILURE_INDICATOR; extern const std::string BOTTOM_INDICATOR; extern const std::string VOID_INDICATOR; extern const std::string BOOL_FALSE_STR; extern const std::string BOOL_TRUE_STR; /** failsafe human readable type display * @return string representing the C++ type. * @remarks the purpose of this function is diagnostics * and unit-testing. When possible, RTTI is exposed, otherwise * the implementation falls back on the static type as seen by * the compiler on usage site. An attempt is made to de-mangle * and further simplify the type string, leaving out some common * (hard wired) namespace prefixes, and stripping typical adornments * like `const`, `*` and `&` * @remarks almost all calls will enter through the `const&` variant of this * function, since C++ considers this best match in template substitution. * Thus, we deliberately force calls with pointer to enter here, since we * do want the pointer itself (and not a pointer to the pointer). We then * pass the "object" as so called "glvalue" to the `typeid()` function, * so to get the evaluation of RTTI, when applicable. * @warning this function does string transformations behind the scene, * and thus should not be used in performance critical context. Moreover, * the returned type string is not necessarily exact and re-parsable. */ template inline std::string typeStr (TY const* obj =nullptr) noexcept try { auto mangledType = obj? typeid(*obj).name() : typeid(TY).name(); return humanReadableTypeID (mangledType); } catch(...) { return FAILURE_INDICATOR; } template inline disable_if, std::string > typeStr (TY const& ref) noexcept { return typeStr (&ref); } inline std::string typeStr (void const*) noexcept { return VOID_INDICATOR; } /** simple expressive symbol to designate a type * @return single word identifier, derived from the * full type name, not necessarily correct or unique */ template inline std::string typeSymbol (TY const* obj =nullptr) { auto mangledType = obj? typeid(*obj).name() : typeid(TY).name(); return primaryTypeComponent (mangledType); } template inline disable_if, std::string > typeSymbol (TY const& ref) { return typeSymbol (&ref); } }}// namespace lib::meta namespace util { using lib::meta::typeStr; using lib::meta::FAILURE_INDICATOR; using lib::meta::BOTTOM_INDICATOR; /** failsafe invocation of custom string conversion. * @return string to represent the object, by default a [type display](\ref typeStr) * @remarks this is a lightweight solution to at least _get any human readable string * representation for pretty much every language object._ This minimal solution * is defined here, to allow for built-in diagnostics for custom types without * the danger of creating much header inclusion and code size bloat. A more * elaborate, [extended solution](\ref lib::toString), including _lexical conversions * for numbers,_ is defined in format-obj.hpp * @tparam X the nominal type to base the string conversion on; should be * a plain type (class or value) without CV-qualification and references * @note any exceptions during string conversion are caught and silently ignored; * the returned string indicates "↯" in this case. * @see util::toString() a user friendly front-end */ template struct StringConv { static std::string invoke (X const& x) noexcept try { return "«"+typeStr(x)+"»"; } catch(...) { return FAILURE_INDICATOR; } }; template struct StringConv> { static std::string invoke (X const& val) noexcept try { return std::string(val); } catch(...) { return FAILURE_INDICATOR; } }; // NOTE: this is meant to be extensible; // more specialisations are e.g. in format-obj.hpp /** pretty-print a double in fixed-point format */ std::string showDouble (double) noexcept; std::string showFloat (float) noexcept; /** pretty-print an address as hex-suffix */ std::string showAddr (void const* addr) noexcept; template inline std::string showAddr (X& elm) noexcept { return showAddr(&elm); } /** diagnostics helper for explicitly indicating pointers */ template inline std::string showPtr (X* ptr =nullptr) { return ptr? showAddr(ptr) + " ↗" + StringConv::invoke(*ptr) : BOTTOM_INDICATOR + " «" + typeStr(ptr) + "»"; } template inline std::string showSmartPtr (SP const& smPtr, std::string label = "smP") { using TargetType = typename SP::element_type; return smPtr? label+"("+showAddr(smPtr.get()) + ") ↗" + StringConv::invoke(*smPtr) : BOTTOM_INDICATOR + " «" + typeStr(smPtr) + "»"; } /** human readable display of boolean values * @return "`true`" or "`false`" */ inline std::string showBool (bool yes) noexcept { return yes? lib::meta::BOOL_TRUE_STR : lib::meta::BOOL_FALSE_STR; } }// namespace util #endif /*LIB_META_UTIL_H*/