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Subject: [Boost-users] [corrected]How to delay the initialisation of a member in a C++ base class until the ctor of derived class is executed?
From: tom tan (ttan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-03-25 05:02:08
Here's the scenario: I want define a base class that allocate some
buffer once for all derived classes, while the size of the buffer varies
among different derived classes. I could achieve it in this way:
class base
{
public:
base():size(), p_array(0){}
private:
size_t size;
boost::shared_array<unsigned char> p_array;
};
in the derived class:
class derived
{
public:
derived(size_t array_size):size(array_size)
{
p_array.reset(new unsigned char[size]);
}
};
However, in order to simplify the design of the derived class, I really
want to put this line:
p_array.reset(new unsigned char[size]);
to somewhere in the base class, thus writing it only once.
In other words,I wished to achieve this:
1) the buffer is allocated inside the base class while
2) the size is designated inside the derived class.
Is there any C++ design pattern could achieve it? Thanks
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