Use of for_each on map elements

Question

I have a map where I\'d like to perform a call on every data type object member function. I yet know how to do this on any sequence but, is it possible to do it on an associativ

Answer 1

For fellow programmers who stumble upon this question from google, there is a good way using boost.

Explained here : Is it possible to use boost::foreach with std::map?

Real example for your convenience :

// typedef in include, given here for info : 
typedef std::map<std::string, std::string> Wt::WEnvironment::CookieMap

Wt::WEnvironment::CookieMap cookie_map = environment.cookies();

BOOST_FOREACH( const Wt::WEnvironment::CookieMap::value_type &cookie, cookie_map )
{
    std::cout << "cookie : " << cookie.first << " = " << cookie.second << endl;
}

enjoy.

Answer 2

Will it work for you ?

class MyClass;
typedef std::pair<int,MyClass> MyPair;
class MyClass
{
  private:
  void foo() const{};
public:
static void Method(MyPair const& p) 
{
    //......
        p.second.foo();
};
}; 
// ...
std::map<int, MyClass> Map;
//.....
std::for_each(Map.begin(), Map.end(), (&MyClass::Method));

Answer 3

From what I remembered, C++ map can return you an iterator of keys using map.begin(), you can use that iterator to loop over all the keys until it reach map.end(), and get the corresponding value: C++ map

Answer 4

I wrote this awhile back to do just what you're looking for.

namespace STLHelpers
{
    //
    // iterator helper type for iterating through the *values* of key/value collections
    //

    /////////////////////////////////////////////
    template<typename _traits>
    struct _value_iterator
    {
        explicit _value_iterator(typename _traits::iterator_type _it)
            : it(_it)
        {
        }

        _value_iterator(const _value_iterator &_other)
            : it(_other.it)
        {
        }

        friend bool operator==(const _value_iterator &lhs, const _value_iterator &rhs)
        {
            return lhs.it == rhs.it;
        }

        friend bool operator!=(const _value_iterator &lhs, const _value_iterator &rhs)
        {
            return !(lhs == rhs);
        }

        _value_iterator &operator++()
        {
            ++it;
            return *this;
        }

        _value_iterator operator++(int)
        {
            _value_iterator t(*this);
            ++*this;
            return t;
        }

        typename _traits::value_type &operator->()
        {
            return **this;
        }

        typename _traits::value_type &operator*()
        {
            return it->second;
        }

        typename _traits::iterator_type it;
    };

    template<typename _tyMap>
    struct _map_iterator_traits
    {
        typedef typename _tyMap::iterator iterator_type;
        typedef typename _tyMap::mapped_type value_type;
    };

    template<typename _tyMap>
    struct _const_map_iterator_traits
    {
        typedef typename _tyMap::const_iterator iterator_type;
        typedef const typename _tyMap::mapped_type value_type;
    };
}

Answer 5

It's unfortunate that you don't have Boost however if your STL implementation has the extensions then you can compose mem_fun_ref and select2nd to create a single functor suitable for use with for_each. The code would look something like this:

#include <algorithm>
#include <map>
#include <ext/functional>   // GNU-specific extension for functor classes missing from standard STL

using namespace __gnu_cxx;  // for compose1 and select2nd

class MyClass
{
public:
    void Method() const;
};

std::map<int, MyClass> Map;

int main(void)
{
    std::for_each(Map.begin(), Map.end(), compose1(std::mem_fun_ref(&MyClass::Method), select2nd<std::map<int, MyClass>::value_type>()));
}

Note that if you don't have access to compose1 (or the unary_compose template) and select2nd, they are fairly easy to write.

Answer 6

C++11 allows you to do:

for (const auto& kv : myMap) {
    std::cout << kv.first << " has value " << kv.second << std::endl;
}

C++17 allows you to do:

for (const auto& [key, value] : myMap) {
    std::cout << key << " has value " << value << std::endl;
}

using structured binding.

UPDATE:

const auto is safer if you don't want to modify the map.