Re: [Boost-users] Check if a type has a member function (inhrited member functions also) with Boost TTI

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Check if a type has a member function (inhrited member functions also) with Boost TTI
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-05-08 18:07:55

On 5/8/2014 1:09 PM, Edward Diener wrote:
> On 5/5/2014 1:20 PM, Hijok Payne wrote:
>> Boost TTI has very convenient macros for checking if a type has a member
>> function. See
>> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/libs/tti/doc/html/the_type_traits_introspection_library/tti_detail_has_member_function.html
>>
>>
>> If I have not missing something BOOST_TTI_HAS_MEMBER_FUNCTION returns
>> false for inherited member functions.
>
> My testing shows that TTI returns false for inherited member functions
> which are protected, but works if they are public.

Apologies but I am wrong. TTI cannot identify inherited member functions 
even if they are public.

>
> I am working on a solution for inherited protected member functions.
>
>>
>> Is there a convenient Boost solution for doing this? There is a SO
>> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1966362/sfinae-to-check-for-inherited-member-functions>
>> solution
>> based on SFINAE. But I would like to avoid that and would prefer a Boost
>> solution, since that way I am more sure it works on more compilers and I
>> want avoid maintaining code for each such specific behavior.
>
> Thanks for the link. Hopefully this will help me.