Inheritance: Ensure call of base fucntion from derived class

[GNiewerth]

Hi,

I´ve got two classes: Base and Derived. Base offers some virtual (non pure virtual method) that are overwritten by Derived. Is it possible to ensure that Derived calls Base function from the overwritten Derived function?

Here´s an example:

class Base
{
public:
   Base()
   {
   }
   
   virtual Base()
   {
   }

   virtual void func1()
   {
      // do some stuff
   }

   virtual void func2()
   {
      // do some more stuff
   }
};

class Derived1 : public Base
{
public:
   Derived1()
   {
   }

   void func1()
   {
      // OK, calls Base func
      Base::func1();
      
      // do some Derived specific stuff
   }

   void func2()
   {
      // oops, forgot to call Base::func2()
      // do some Derived specific stuff
   }
};

[laserlight]

Perhaps this will work:

class Base
{
public:
   Base()
   {
   }

   virtual ~Base() {}

   void func1()
   {
      // do some stuff
      func1_();
   }

   void func2()
   {
      // do some more stuff
      func2_();
   }

protected:
   virtual void func1_()
   {
      // do nothing
   }

   virtual void func2_()
   {
      // do nothing
   }
};

class Derived1 : public Base
{
public:
   Derived1()
   {
   }

protected:
   void func1_()
   {
      // do some Derived specific stuff
   }

   void func2_()
   {
      // do some Derived specific stuff
   }
};

The idea is that Base provide hooks for the Derived class to implement.

[GNiewerth]

Great suggestion, I think it will fit my needs.
Thank you

PS:
Unfortunately I have no reputation to spread at the moment.

[code_carnage]

Same here.. What do I have to do to get reputation to spread?

[laserlight]

Look out for good posts by various other people and add to their reputation

[GNiewerth]

Hi again,

I gave some thought to your suggestion, laserlight, and find it very useful for flat hierachies with only one level of inheritance. How do I implement it for two or more levels, is it possible at all?

[laserlight]

I gave some thought to your suggestion, laserlight, and find it very useful for flat hierachies with only one level of inheritance. How do I implement it for two or more levels, is it possible at all?

EDIT:
Okay, I did some experimentation, and I think that one cannot really prevent the problem elegantly. Perhaps the best you can do is to provide yet another hook function, and specify that subclasses should implement that instead of the original hook function from the base class.