overloading friend operator<< for template class

Question

I have read couple of the questions regarding my problem on StackOverflow.com now, and none of it seems to solve my problem. Or I maybe have done it wrong... The overloaded

Answer 1

I think you shouldn't make friend in the first place.

You can create a public method call print, something like this (for a non template class):

std::ostream& MyClass::print(std::ostream& os) const
{
  os << "Private One" << privateOne_ << endl;
  os << "Private Two" << privateTwo_ << endl;
  os.flush();
  return os;
}

and then, outside the class (but in the same namespace)

std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, const MyClass& myClass)
{
  return myClass.print(os);
}

I think it should work also for template class, but I haven't tested yet.