I have made a map of functions. all these functions are void and receive single string parameter.
code:
void f1(string params){...}
void f2(string params){...}
void f3(string params){...}
map<string , void*> funcMap;
funcMap["f1"] =(void*)&f1;
funcMap["f2"] =(void*)&f2;
funcMap["f3"] =(void*)&f3;
how do i call a function?
I tried the next code, but id doesn't work:
void (*func)(string) = &funcMap[commandType];
func(commandParam);
I get this error message:
Server.cpp:160:46: error: cannot convert ‘void**’ to ‘void (*)(std::string) {aka void (*)(std::basic_string<char>)}’ in initialization
typedef void (*pfunc)(string);
map<string, pfunc> funcMap;
funcMap["f1"] = f1; //and so forth
And then call:
pfunc f = funcMap[commandType];
(*f)(commandParam);
In general, why throw away type safety? If it's a map of function pointers, declare it to be one.
Why not just have those as separate classes.
Then have the methods as virtual.
You can then have a map between the string and the base class.
i.e.
class Someoperation
{
virtual void Doit() = 0;
};
map<string, Someopertion> ops;
Then
class MyOp : public Someoperation
{
void Doit() { /* Some code here */}
};
Just add objects
ops["Hello"] = MyOp();
then call it
ops["Hello"].Doit();
&funcMap[commandType]
Just drop the &
. Your compile error was useful here. It had a void**
on the right which is because you took the address of a function pointer. You don't want two levels of indirection there.