LUMIERA.clone/src/lib/replaceable-item.hpp
Ichthyostega bb7bba5dc2 Commands: add API to unbind and discard command arguments
this seems like an obvious functionality and basically harmless,
since commands are designed to be inherently stateful, which is reflected
in all the internal storage holders to expos an assignment operator
(even while the actual implementation is based on placement new instead
of assigning values into the storage, and thus even supports immutable
values). The only possible ramification is that argument values must
be default constructible
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/*
REPLACEABLE-ITEM.hpp - adapter to take snapshot from non-assignable values
Copyright (C) Lumiera.org
2017, Hermann Vosseler <Ichthyostega@web.de>
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*/
/** @file replaceable-item.hpp
** Adapter wrapper to treat non-assignable values as if they were assignable.
** Prerequisite is for the type to be copy constructible (maybe even just move constructible).
** The typical usage is when we want to take a _snapshot_ from some value, but do not actually
** need the ability to assign something to a specific object instance. In such a situation,
** we may just destroy a previous snapshot and then place a new copy initialised value into
** the same storage space. For all really assignable types we fall back to a trivial
** implementation.
**
** \par motivation
** The typical usage is in library or framework code, where we do not know what types to expect.
** For example, the Lumiera command framework automatically captures an _UNDO memento_ based
** on the return type of a state capturing function. It would be highly surprising for the
** user if it wasn't possible to capture e.g. time values or durations as _old state_,
** because these entities can not be re-assigned with new values, only created.
** But obviously a command handling framework needs the ability to capture
** state consecutively several times, and this adapter was created
** to bridge this conceptual discrepancy
**
** \par extensions
** - the type can be solely move constructible, in which case the payload needs to be
** moved explicitly when embedding into this adapter ///////////////////////////////////////////////TICKET 1059 : does not work yet on GCC-4.9
** - when the payload is equality comparable, the container is as well, by delegation
** - container instances can be default created, which emplaces an _empty value_.
** The actual value to embed is retrieved from the lib::NullValue template,
** which is a static per-type singleton.
** - thus types which are not even default constructible can still be used,
** by providing an explicit specialisation of lib::NullValue for this type.
**
** @see ReplaceableIterm_test
** @see proc::control::MementoTie
**
*/
#ifndef LIB_REPLACEABLE_ITEM_H
#define LIB_REPLACEABLE_ITEM_H
#include "lib/error.hpp"
#include "lib/null-value.hpp"
#include "lib/meta/util.hpp"
#include "lib/util.hpp"
#include <type_traits>
#include <utility>
namespace lib {
namespace wrapper {
using util::isSameObject;
using util::unConst;
using std::forward;
/**
* Adapter container to take snapshots from non-assignable values.
* Implemented by placing the subject into an inline buffer.
* @note uses lib::NullValue to retrieve an _empty payload_.
*/
template<typename X, typename COND =void>
class ReplaceableItem
{
char content_[sizeof(X)];
public:
ReplaceableItem()
{
emplace (NullValue<X>::get());
}
~ReplaceableItem()
{
destroy();
}
template<typename Z>
ReplaceableItem (Z&& otherValue)
{
emplace (forward<Z> (otherValue));
}
template<typename Z>
ReplaceableItem&
operator= (Z&& otherValue)
{
if (not isSameObject(*this, otherValue))
reAssign (forward<Z> (otherValue));
return *this;
}
ReplaceableItem&
clear() noexcept
{
reAssign (NullValue<X>::get());
return *this;
}
operator X&() { return access(); }
operator X const&() const { return unConst(this)->access(); }
X& get() { return access(); }
X const& get() const { return unConst(this)->access(); }
private:
X&
access()
{
return reinterpret_cast<X&>(content_);
}
void
destroy()
{
access().~X();
}
template<typename Z>
void
emplace (Z&& otherValue)
try {
new(&content_) X{forward<Z> (otherValue)};
}
catch(...) {
NullValue<X>::build (&content_);
}
template<typename Z>
void
reAssign (Z&& otherValue)
{
destroy();
emplace (forward<Z> (otherValue));
}
};
template<typename X>
struct is_assignable_value
: std::__and_<std::is_copy_assignable<X>, std::__not_<std::is_reference<X>>>
{ };
/**
* simple delegating implementation
* to use for regular cases
*/
template<typename X>
class ReplaceableItem<X, meta::enable_if<is_assignable_value<X>>>
{
X val_;
public:
ReplaceableItem() : val_(NullValue<X>::get()) { }
ReplaceableItem(X const& val) : val_(val) { }
ReplaceableItem(X && val) : val_(forward<X>(val)) { }
ReplaceableItem& operator= (X const& val) { val_=val; return *this; }
ReplaceableItem& operator= (X && val) { val_=forward<X>(val); return *this; }
ReplaceableItem& clear() noexcept { val_=NullValue<X>::get(); return *this; }
operator X&() { return val_; }
operator X const&() const { return val_; }
X& get() { return val_; }
X const& get() const { return val_; }
};
/** disallow embedding references */
template<typename X>
class ReplaceableItem<X, meta::enable_if<std::is_reference<X>>>
{
static_assert( not sizeof(X), "ReplaceableItem for references is pointless");
};
/* ===== Equality comparison delegated to contained element ===== */
template<typename X>
inline bool
operator== (ReplaceableItem<X> const& li, ReplaceableItem<X> const& ri)
{
return li.get() == ri.get();
}
template<typename X>
inline bool
operator!= (ReplaceableItem<X> const& li, ReplaceableItem<X> const& ri)
{
return li.get() != ri.get();
}
template<typename X, typename Z>
inline bool
operator== (ReplaceableItem<X> const& item, Z const& something)
{
return item.get() == something;
}
template<typename X, typename Z>
inline bool
operator!= (ReplaceableItem<X> const& item, Z const& something)
{
return item.get() != something;
}
template<typename Z, typename X>
inline bool
operator== (Z const& something, ReplaceableItem<X> const& item)
{
return item.get() == something;
}
template<typename Z, typename X>
inline bool
operator!= (Z const& something, ReplaceableItem<X> const& item)
{
return item.get() != something;
}
}} // namespace lib::wrap
#endif /*LIB_REPLACEABLE_ITEM_H*/