Question

I have a std::map of Poco::Any which I'm trying to iterate and output to a stream but i'm getting a compiler error. My code is below:

map<string, Poco::Any>::const_iterator it;
map<string, Poco::Any>::const_iterator end = _map.end();
map<string, Poco::Any>::const_iterator begin = _map.begin();
for(it = begin; it != end; ++it) {
    const std::type_info &type = it->second.type();

    // compile error here:
    os << "  " << it->first << " : " << Poco::RefAnyCast<type>(it->second) << endl;
}

2 errors on that line:

'type' cannot appear in a constant-expression
no matching function for call to 'RefAnyCast(Poco::Any&)'

UPDATE:

I understand that templates are compile time whereas type() is runtime so won't work. Thanks for underlining that. Also DynamicAny won't work because it only accepts types which have DynamicAnyHolder implementations, not ideal. The only rule i'd like to impose on the types is that they have << overloaded.

Below is what i'm currently doing, works to a degree, but only dumps known types, which is not what I'm after.

string toJson() const {
    ostringstream os;
    os << endl << "{" << endl;
    map<string, Poco::Any>::const_iterator end = _map.end();
    map<string, Poco::Any>::const_iterator begin = _map.begin();
    for(map<string, Poco::Any>::const_iterator it = begin; it != end; ++it) {
        const std::type_info &type = it->second.type();
        os << "  " << it->first << " : ";

        // ugly, is there a better way?
        if(type == typeid(int)) os << Poco::RefAnyCast<int>(it->second);
        else if(type == typeid(float)) os << Poco::RefAnyCast<float>(it->second);
        else if(type == typeid(char)) os << Poco::RefAnyCast<char>(it->second);
        else if(type == typeid(string)) os << Poco::RefAnyCast<string>(it->second);
        else if(type == typeid(ofPoint)) os << Poco::RefAnyCast<ofPoint>(it->second);
        else if(type == typeid(ofVec2f)) os << Poco::RefAnyCast<ofVec2f>(it->second);
        else if(type == typeid(ofVec3f)) os << Poco::RefAnyCast<ofVec3f>(it->second);
        //else if(type == typeid(ofDictionary)) os << Poco::RefAnyCast<ofDictionary>(it->second);
        else os << "unknown type";

        os << endl;
    }
    os<< "}" << endl;
    return os.str();
}

No correct solution

Licensed under: CC-BY-SA with attribution
Not affiliated with StackOverflow
scroll top