I have successfully used my templated function when I do not make the methods that it uses private. This avoids the friend issues that I'm having problems with.
I do not want to keep my app this way. There are specific reasons I want to restrict access to these methods, so I'd really like to know why friend functions don't work.
Jeffrey Holle wrote:
I use gcc v3.3.
I'm developing an application in which I want to restrict access to a member function to everything but 1 function.
I'm attempting to accomplish this by making the method private and my function a friend, but failing.
The synopsis of the function is: template<class T1> void putNamespace(const string& name, T1& object);
I attempt to define this function has a friend of CParameter with the following in the public definition area of this class.
friend void putNamespace(const string& name, CParameter& object);
I've tried to indicate what this function actually is (a template), but run into compiler errors.
It compiled the shared library that I'm defining it in, but when I attempt to compile a client that uses it like:
putNamespace("std",myParameter);
I get errors associated with putNamespace attempting to a private method of CParameter, which it does!
I've backed off from the template as an experiment. In defining putNamespace to take a second parameter of "CParameter", I get these compilation errors in compiling my shared library.
Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong?
