variable return type in c++ class

Question

i have a class with the following structure:

class myClass
{
    private:
        int type;
        classOne objectOne;
        classTwo objectTwo;
    public:
          


        

Answer 1

I am not sure why you would not use templates for your case.

You can have something like below:

template 
class myClass
{
    private:
        int type;
        ClassType object;            
    public:
        myClass(ClassType object_in)
        {
            this->object = object_in;
            /*
                C++ doesn't support reflection so I don't think there 
                is a robust way of doing the following at runtime.
            */
            type = /* Get Type at runtime */;
        }
        /*
            Have another method which return object in a straigtforward way.
        */
};

However, then this become trivial. Any more insight into what your use case is, such that you have to know the type?

Update: If the ClassType is going to be an Object, you can have a const static int TypeID member for the class, which is set at compile time. You can then use it determine the Type at runtime.