LUMIERA.clone/src/lib/sub-id.hpp
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/*
SUB-ID.hpp - extensible symbolic identifier
Copyright (C)
2009, Hermann Vosseler <Ichthyostega@web.de>
  **Lumiera** 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. See the file COPYING for further details.
*/
/** @file sub-id.hpp
** Extensible symbolic ID type.
** @remark this is a design sketch (from 9/2009) an not used anywhere as of 3/2017...
**
** My observation is that, during design, I did run again and again into a specific
** situation, which I then needed to circumvent in lack of a first class solution.
** Learning from that experiences, I start building this structured ID template.
** - it shall be an \em symbolic identifier, not an artificial ID
** - the basic value set should be limited and statically type safe.
** - possibility of structured adornments and variations
** - optionally concealing these extensions from the interface level
**
** The first attempt to build such an entity is based on standard techniques,
** disregarding performance and memory footprint considerations.
**
** @todo 1/2016 this idea seems very reasonable, and we should just make it
** robust and usable, along the lines pointed out by that draft
** - use std::tuple as storage
** - remove the `format-util` dependency (!) ////////////////////////////////TICKET #985
** - provide a hash implementation for real
** - extend to arbitrary number of sub-dimensions (variadic)
** - implement comparisons as you'd do for any algebraic type
** - provide a metaprogramming facility to get an id tuple
**
** @see SubID_test
** @see MultiFact
**
*/
#ifndef LIB_SUB_ID_H
#define LIB_SUB_ID_H
#include "lib/format-util.hpp"
//#include <functional>
#include <boost/functional/hash.hpp> /////TODO better push the hash implementation into a cpp file (and btw, do it more seriously!)
#include <string>
namespace lib {
using boost::hash_value;
using std::string;
/**
*
*/
template<typename I>
class SubId;
class SubID
{
public:
virtual ~SubID() { }
virtual operator string() const =0;
};
inline size_t
hash_value (SubID const& sID)
{
return hash_value (string (sID));
}
inline bool
operator== (SubID const& id1, SubID const& id2)
{
return (string (id1) == string (id2));
}
////////TODO a serious implementation should descend recursively, instead of relying on the string representation
template<typename I>
class SubId
: public SubID
{
I baseID_;
public:
SubId (I id)
: baseID_(id)
{ }
operator string() const
{
using util::toString;
return toString (baseID_); // note: extension point
}
};
template<typename I, class SUZ>
class ExtendedSubId
: public SubId<I>
{
typedef SubId<I> _baID;
SUZ extID_;
public:
ExtendedSubId (I i, SUZ const& chain)
: _baID(i)
, extID_(chain)
{ }
operator string() const
{
return _baID::operator string()
+ '.'
+ string (extID_);
}
};
} // namespace lib
#endif