Building an unordered map with tuples as keys

Question

In a C++ program with Boost, I am trying to build an unordered map whose keys are tuples of doubles:

typedef boost::tuples::tuple

        

Answer 1

You need a bit of front matter. Because of the underlying implementation of boost::tuples::tuple, make Edge a structure to allow the overloads to resolve correctly. Otherwise, you'll get no matches for

• boost::hash_value(const Edge &)
• operator==(const Edge &, const Edge &)

Code below:

struct Edge {
  Edge(double x1, double x2, double x3, double x4)
    : tuple(x1,x2,x3,x4) {}
  boost::tuples::tuple tuple;
};

// XXX: less than ideal implementation!
bool operator==(const Edge &a, const Edge &b)
{
  return a.tuple.get<0>() == b.tuple.get<0>() &&
         a.tuple.get<1>() == b.tuple.get<1>() &&
         a.tuple.get<2>() == b.tuple.get<2>() &&
         a.tuple.get<3>() == b.tuple.get<3>();
}

// XXX: me too!
std::size_t hash_value(const Edge &e)
{
  std::size_t seed = 0;
  boost::hash_combine(seed, e.tuple.get<0>());
  boost::hash_combine(seed, e.tuple.get<1>());
  boost::hash_combine(seed, e.tuple.get<2>());
  boost::hash_combine(seed, e.tuple.get<3>());
  return seed;
}

typedef boost::unordered_map< Edge, int > EdgeMap;