I'm trying to add a lazy-initialization function to my class. I'm not very proficient with C++. Can someone please tell me how I achieve it.
My class has a private member defined as:
std::unique_ptr<Animal> animal;
Here's the original constructor that takes one parameter:
MyClass::MyClass(string file) :
animal(new Animal(file))
{}
I just added a parameter-less constructor and an Init() function. Here's the Init function I just added:
void MyClass::Init(string file)
{
this->animal = ???;
}
What do I need to write there to make it equivalent to what constructor is doing?
#include <memory>
#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdio>
class A
{
public :
int a;
A(int a)
{
this->a=a;
}
};
class B
{
public :
std::unique_ptr<A> animal;
void Init(int a)
{
this->animal=std::unique_ptr<A>(new A(a));
}
void show()
{
std::cout<<animal->a;
}
};
int main()
{
B *b=new B();
b->Init(10);
b->show();
return 0;
}
I think animal.reset(new Animal(file)) is what you want.
#include<iostream>
#include<memory>
#include<iostream>
class Amm{
public:
std::unique_ptr<double> myVar;
explicit Amm(std::unique_ptr<double> ptr):myVar{ptr.release()}{}
};
int main(){
Amm a(std::make_unique<double>(5));
std::cout<<*a.myVar;
return 0;
}