Grouping Policy Classes - Template Templates and Variadic Templates

Question

I am wondering if it is possible to combine policy classes using template-template variables, so that each policy can have its own template package. It seems that you can share one package of templates only among all policies, but I hope this is not so.

The following seems to be possible:

template <
    class T,
    template <class, typename...>   class Policy1,
    template <class, typename...>   class Policy2,
    template <class, typename...>   class Policy3,
    typename... Args    
>
struct PolicyClass 
    : public Policy1     <ObjT, Args...>
    , public Policy2     <ObjT, Args...>
    , public Policy3     <ObjT, Args...>    {}

I hope that each policy can have its own package so that I can do something like this (?):

template <class T>
struct implementedPolicy1 {};
template <class T>
struct implementedPolicy2 {};
template <class T, class A>
struct implementedPolicy3 {};

PolicyClass <ObjT, 
             implementedPolicy1,
             implementedPolicy2,
             implementedPolicy3<AType>
            >

The idea is that each of the policies uses the same type of object, but the third has some additional patterns. I know this incorrect code above - just trying to illustrate what I would like to do.

thanks

Answer 1

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// helper template.  Using `std::tuple<>` instead is another option.
template<class...>struct type_list {};

// base, note no body:
template <
    class T,
    template <class, typename...>   class Policy0,
    template <class, typename...>   class Policy1,
    template <class, typename...>   class Policy2,
    typename... Packs
>
struct PolicyClass;

// specialization:
template <
    class T,
    template <class, typename...>   class Policy0,
    template <class, typename...>   class Policy1,
    template <class, typename...>   class Policy2,
    typename... A0s,
    typename... A1s,
    typename... A2s
>
struct PolicyClass<
  T, Policy1, Policy2, Policy3,
  type_list<A0s...>, type_list<A1s...>, type_list<A2s...>
>
: Policy0<T, A0s...>, Policy1<T, A1s...>, Policy2<T, A2s...> {}

type_list.

, , , , .

PolicyClass< int, bob, eve, alice, type_list<>, type_list<double>, type_list<char, char, char> > foo;

PolicyClass: bob<int>, alice<int, double>, eve<int, char, char, char>

.

Answer 2

, , :

template <typename T, typename... Policies>
struct PolicyClass: Policies... {};

:

using PC = PolicyClass<int,
                       LifetimePolicy<LP::Extended>,
                       DurabilityPolicy<3600, DP::Seconds>
                       StoragePolicy<int, SP::InMemory>>;

Answer 3

, - :

template <class T,
          template <class> class Policy1,
          template <class> class Policy2,
          template <class> class Policy3>
struct PolicyClass : public Policy1<ObjT>,
                     public Policy2<ObjT>,
                     public Policy3<ObjT>
{};

template <class T> struct implementedPolicy1 {};
template <class T> struct implementedPolicy2 {};
template <class T, class A> struct implementedPolicy3 {};

// Adapt the policy interface
template <class T>
using myImplementedPolicy3 = implementedPolicy3<T, AType>; // Assuming AType exist

PolicyClass <ObjT, implementedPolicy1, implementedPolicy2, myImplementedPolicy3> policies;