[boost] Re: [program_options] post-review version

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-22 04:56:42

Janusz Piwowarski wrote:

>> > And, second question, do you think about interface to create own
>> > validators?
>>> [...]
>> If you want to customize the parsing, the current way is:
>>
>> 1. Declare some class derived from typed_value<YourType> and override the
>> 'parse' method.
>>
>> 2. Specialize the 'value' function to return instance of your type.
>>
> It's it, thanks.

In fact, I've given you the most powerfull method, which can be used to
override everything. For changing the parsing behaviour, specializing
'validator' might be easier.

- Volodya