Bug 382

Summary:	feature request: templated DynamicCast
Product:	ns-3	Reporter:	Tom Henderson <tomh>
Component:	core	Assignee:	Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	gjcarneiro, ns-bugs
Priority:	P3
Version:	ns-3-dev
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Tom Henderson 2008-10-18 10:07:32 UTC

Quoting Gustavo from a post from about a month ago:

"Although dynamic_cast<CsmaNetDevice*> (PeekPointer (dev)) is a bit more
verbose.  Ideally I think it would make a lot of sense to have a
smart-pointer based dynamic cast variant, something like:

static inline Ptr<T2> DynamicCast<T2> (Ptr<T1> ptr)
{
   return Ptr<T2> (dynamic_cast<T2*> (PeekPointer (ptr)));
}

Unfortunately the idea got no traction, at the time."

I'd like to suggest we consider adding this.

Comment 1 Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro 2008-10-18 17:08:35 UTC

+1 from me :)

Comment 2 Craig Dowell 2008-10-18 18:16:43 UTC

+1

Comment 3 Mathieu Lacage 2008-10-20 02:41:00 UTC

changeset b03ea30335a3