BloombergLP::bsls::NameOf

Synopsis

Declared in <bsls_nameof.h>

template<class TYPE>
class NameOf
    : public NameOf_Base

Description

This class provides a means to display the type name of its template parameter TYPE. An instance of this class can be implicitly (or explicitly via the name accessor) cast to a const char * which will point to a buffer containing the description of the type. Note that all instances of a given type will refer to the same character buffer containing the name.

Base Classes

Name	Description
`NameOf_Base`	This `class` provide non-template implementation code for the `NameOf` template class.

Member Functions

Name	Description
`NameOf` [constructor]	Initialize the base class of this object to the name of `TYPE`.
`name`	Return a pointer to the a string containing the name of `TYPE`, this serves as a convenient way to explicitly cast the return value to a `const char *`.
`operator char const*`	Return a pointer to the a string containing the name of `TYPE`.

Protected Enums

Name	Description
`Unnamed enum`	Compile-time constants for trimming compiler-specific type-name prefixes.

Protected Static Member Functions

Name	Description
`initBuffer`	Initialize `buffer` with the type name extracted from `functionName`.