#include <toast/typeinfo.hpp>
The standard specifies the methods that std::type_info should have, but it doesn't require the names or order implied by 'before' to be consistent across platforms. This class is an attempt at a more portable type_info.
It's actually impossible to provide portable type info, since a platform isn't required to support it at all. However, we have made this consistent between three platforms that do support it. This was tremendously important for our persistence library (which may eventually get added to toast).
To get a type_info call toast::type_id.
Public Member Functions | |
| bool | operator== (type_info const &rhs) const |
| bool | operator!= (type_info const &rhs) const |
| bool | before (type_info const &rhs) const |
| std::string const & | name () const |
Friends | |
| template<typename T> | |
| type_info const & | type_id () |
| get a toast::typeinfo for type T. | |
| template<typename T> | |
| type_info const & | type_id (T const &t) |
| get a toast::typeinfo for object t (not necessarily T). | |