Taking Advantage of the Abstract Class Hierarchy

The following example defines a universal printer class that accepts an arbitrary collection of jobs and prints their IDs. The elements are printed in the iteration order that is defined for the given collection. The key set running can be used as argument to the universal printer.

class JobPrinter {
public:
    print (IACollection <Job*> const& jobs)
    {
        cout << "ID     ..."
        ICursor *cursor = jobs.newCursor ();
        cout << "{ ";
        forICursor (*cursor) {
            cout << jobs.elementAt (*cursor)->id() &l2. ' ';
        }
        cout << "}\n";
        delete cursor;
    }
};

// ...
typedef IKeySet <Job*, JobId> JobSet;
JobSet running;
// ...
JobPrinter jobPrinter;
jobPrinter.print(running);


Introduction to the Collection Classes
Collection Class Hierarchy
Overall Implementation Structure
Collection Class Polymorphism
Flat Collections
Trees


Copying and Referencing Collections
Adding and Overloading Member Functions
Instantiating the Collection Classes