tgCast.h

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 * Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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 * The NASA Tensegrity Robotics Toolkit (NTRT) v1 platform is licensed
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#ifndef TG_CAST_H
#define TG_CAST_H

// This application
#include "tgTagSearch.h"
#include "tgTaggable.h"
// The C++ Standard Library
#include <vector>

class tgCast
{
public:
    
    template <typename T_FROM, typename T_TO>
    static std::vector<T_TO*> filter(const std::vector<T_FROM*>& v)
    {
        std::vector<T_TO*> result;
        for(int i = 0; i < v.size(); i++) {
            T_TO* t = cast<T_FROM, T_TO>(v[i]);
            if(t != 0) {
                result.push_back(t);
            }
        }
        return result;
    }
    
    template <typename T_FROM, typename T_TO>
    static T_TO* cast(T_FROM* obj)
    {
        // @todo: dynamic_cast may just return 0 on fail...
        try {
            return dynamic_cast<T_TO*>(obj);
        } catch (std::exception& e) {
            return 0;
        }
    }

    template <typename T_FROM, typename T_TO>
    static T_TO* cast(T_FROM& obj)
    {
        return cast<T_FROM, T_TO>(&obj);
    }

    
    template <typename T_FROM, typename T_TO>
    static std::vector<T_TO*> find(const tgTagSearch& tagSearch, const std::vector<T_FROM*> haystack)
    {
        // Filter to the correct type
        std::vector<T_TO*> filtered = filter<T_FROM, T_TO>(haystack);
        std::vector<T_TO*> result;

        // Check each element in filtered to see if it is castable to tgTaggable and matches the search
        for(int i = 0; i < filtered.size(); i++) {
            tgTaggable* t = cast<T_TO, tgTaggable>(filtered[i]);
            if(t != 0 && tagSearch.matches(*t)) {
                // Note: add filtered[i] instead of t to maintain correct type
                result.push_back(filtered[i]);
            }
        }
        return result;
    }
    
};


#endif