[boost] Writing fully custom containers for the bgl

From: Pierre DOUCY (pdoucyml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-05-06 17:47:21

I have written a custom container for the bgl's adjacency_list which 
was based on a subclass of a stl container (namely, std:list). 
Everything seemed to work just fine (if not by itself) as I followed 
the bgl book indications.

Now, I'm working on a non stl-based container (a wrapper around the bdb 
API), and facing a lot of compile-time problems. I know my bdb wrapper 
is not fully stl-compliant.

So my question is : if I make this wrapper fully standard-compliant 
(for instance by using boost::iterator and by implementing everything 
the stl tells me to implement in a AssociativeContainer or a 
MultipleAssociativeContainer), will the bgl play nicely with it  (i.e. 
as if it was a std::map, for instance) ?

If not, what should I do to be able to use my containers with the bgl. 
I haven't found any examples out there, and wondered if anyone tried 
(and succeded) in this task.

My second question is : how and when does the adjacency_list 
instantiates its containers, and is there any way to mess with it, by 
passing special arguments to the containers when instatiating my graph 
? Reading the code and following the process in a debugger doesn't 
really make my ideas clearer.

Thanks in advance for any help and/or ideas

Pierre

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