[Boost-users] Re: Using shared_ptr slightly different

11 Apr 2005

      "Daniel Lidström" <daniel.lidstrom@sbg.se> wrote in message 
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Hello,
I want to use the shared_ptr with objects that are allocated using
a factory. The problem is the deallocation. It has to be done with
a ``manager'' class. For example, here is how the allocation and
deallocation has to be done:
PxyFileData& geo_file = dynamic_cast<PxyFileData&>(fileMan.New("geo"));
fileMan.Close(geo_file);
I would like to be able to put shared_ptr<PxyFileData>'s into a 
std::vector
and then forget about the deallocation. I.e. fileMan.Close(...) should be
done automatically when the objects aren't needed anymore. But since the
deallocation isn't simply delete, how can I do this?
I believe this should do it:

    typedef shared_ptr<void> tPxyFileDataPtr;
    typedef ???              tFileMan;

    tPxyFileDataPtr PxyFileDataPtr( const char* aName, tFileMan& fileMan )
    {
        return tPxyFileDataPtr( 
dynamic_cast<PxyFileData&>(fileMan.New(aName))
                              , boost::bind( &tFileMan::New, fileMan )
                              );
    }

Alternate usages of shared_ptr are described in the docs.

Jeff Flinn