FunctorFactory

A basic factory design pattern which is simple and easy to use!

Copyright

FunctorFactory is a Factory Design Program which brings portability and ease to implementing a Factory Design Pattern into a project. Copyright (C) 2017 Kenneth Earl Cornett Jr.

This program 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 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Introduction

FunctorFactory is an example of the Factory Design Pattern which allows the storage of not only objects and their derivations, but also multiple constructors for each object and their derivation as long as the keys for each constructor is unique.

Usage

Conditions

1. Include the Macro in the files with the object's declaration to register them.
2. Name being used to register must not have quotes around it.
3. Type is the object's class name that is being register, its type if you will.
4. The arguments used in the constructor wishing to be registered, must have their types included as well as part of the parameters.

Example Code

struct Derived : public Base
{
    Derived(int a, int b, float c);
    Derived(int a, int b);
    Derived(const char * c);
}

// Example Macros to register the different types of constructors.
FF_MACRO(name_1, Derived, int, int, float);
FF_MACRO(name_2, Derived, int, int);
FF_MACRO(name_3, Derived, const char *);

// Examples on how to create objects after Registering them with the Macro
Base * b = asw::FunctorFactor::createObject<int, int, float>("name_1", 8, 8, 3.0);
Derived * d = static_cast<Derived *>(asw::FunctorFactory::createObject<const char*>("name_3","Hello World"));

Final Comments

The way this Factory class works is once a class/constructor is included, memory is dynamically allocated for a Functor to be used in place of a templated create function for the registered object. This Functor is then placed in a map to be referenced by the name/key specified.

This class/structure is easy to adapt for your personal projects and classes. Switch out all the return types which are 'Base *s' with your own object that will act as the Base type in your program. Feel free to change FF_MACRO to have another name, such as REGISTER or Register_Macro, if you would like.

Locations

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#include "Base.h"

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static Base* create(A... args);

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static Base* createObject(const std::string &skey, A... args);

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Base * asw::FunctorFactory::create(A... args){

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DerivedFunctor<Base*,A...> * df = new DerivedFunctor<Base*,A...>(FunctorFactory::create<U,A...>);

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Base * asw::FunctorFactory::createObject(const std::string &skey, A... args){

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DerivedFunctor<Base*,A...> * df = static_cast<DerivedFunctor<Base*,A...>*>(it->second);