I ran into an error yesterday and, while it\'s easy to get around, I wanted to make sure that I\'m understanding C++ right.
I have a base class with a protected memb
protected
members can be accessed:
this
pointerTo solve your case you can use one of last two options.
Accept Derived in Derived::DoSomething or declare Derived friend
to Base:
class Derived;
class Base
{
friend class Derived;
protected:
int b;
public:
void DoSomething(const Base& that)
{
b+=that.b;
}
};
class Derived : public Base
{
protected:
int d;
public:
void DoSomething(const Base& that)
{
b+=that.b;
d=0;
}
};
You may also consider public getters in some cases.
You have access to the protected members of Derived
, but not those of Base
(even if the only reason it's a protected member of Derived
is because it's inherited from Base
)
class Derived : public Base
{
protected:
int d;
public:
void DoSomething()
{
b+=this->b;
d=0;
}
};
//this will work
Following the hack for stl I wrote a small code which seems to solve the problem of accessing the protected members in derived class
#include <iostream>
class B
{
protected:
int a;
public:
void dosmth()
{
a = 4;
}
void print() {std::cout<<"a="<<a<<std::endl;}
};
class D: private B
{
public:
void dosmth(B &b)
{
b.*&D::a = 5;
}
};
int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) {
B b;
D d;
b.dosmth();
b.print();
d.dosmth(b);
b.print();
return 0;
}
Prints
a=4
a=5
You can try with static_cast< const Derived*>(pBase)->Base::protected_member ...
class Base
{
protected:
int b;
public:
...
};
class Derived : public Base
{
protected:
int d;
public:
void DoSomething(const Base& that)
{
b += static_cast<const Derived*>(&that)->Base::b;
d=0;
}
void DoSomething(const Base* that)
{
b += static_cast<const Derived*>(that)->Base::b;
d=0;
}
};
Use this
pointer to access protected members
class Derived : public Base
{
protected:
int d;
public:
void DoSomething(const Base& that)
{
this->b+=that.b;
d=0;
}
};