LUMIERA.clone/src/lib/wrapperptr.hpp
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/*
WRAPPERPTR.hpp - variant record able to hold a pointer to some smart-ptr/wrapper types, providing conversions
Copyright (C)
2008, 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 wrapperptr.hpp
** Wrapper to treat several flavours of smart-pointers uniformly
** @deprecated as of 2016 we should re-think how to organise visitor use in the Builder
*/
#ifndef LUMIERA_WRAPPERPTR_H
#define LUMIERA_WRAPPERPTR_H
#include "lib/variant-o.hpp"
#include "lib/access-casted-o.hpp"
#include "lib/meta/typelist.hpp"
#include "steam/mobject/placement.hpp"
#include "lib/p.hpp"
namespace steam {
namespace asset { class Asset; }
namespace mobject { class MObject; }
typedef lib::meta::Types < mobject::Placement<mobject::MObject>*
, lib::P<asset::Asset>*
> ::List
WrapperTypes;
}
namespace lumiera {
/**
* helper to treat various sorts of smart-ptrs uniformly.
* Implemented as a variant-type value object, it is preconfigured
* with the possible hierarchy-base classes used within this application.
* Thus, when passing in an arbitrary smart-ptr, the best fitting smart-ptr
* type pointing to the corresponding base class is selected for internal storage.
* Later on, stored values can be retrieved either utilising static or dynamic casts;
* error reporting is similar to the behaviour of dynamic_cast<T>: when retrieving
* a pointer, NULL is returned in case of mismatch.
*
* @deprecated not sure if this was a good idea anyway. Better re-think how to handle wrapped objects in visitation
* @todo really need to switch to the new lib::Variant and util::AccessCasted implementation ////////////////TICKET #450
*/
typedef lib::VariantO<steam::WrapperTypes, util::AccessCasted_O> WrapperPtr;
} // namespace lumiera
#endif