I am trying to experiment bind in C++. Basically I have two class - Invokee. The invokee class registers a test handler that needs to be invoked upon some callbacks. The method here is -
void RegisterTestHandler(int id, TestFunction handler, std::string summary, std::string details);
Similarly, I have another method that actually invokes what has been registered -
void callHandler(int id);
Another class Test which has a function that needs to be invoked on callHandler.
unsigned int globalReset(int val);
In the main function, I am doing the nullptr for the second parameter in the bind. However, it still works and I don't get any crashes. Is it something working because of the compiler optimisation or undefined behaviour or it is something to do with bind concept.
Here is the entire experimental code.
// main.cpp
#include <iostream>
#include "test.h"
#include "invokee.h"
#include <memory>
#include <functional>
// beautify using clang-format in Vscode.
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
auto *invokeTest = new Invokee();
Test *test = new Test();
std::string summary = "global reset summary";
std::string details = "global reset details";
//Basically there are two object from different class - InvokeTest --> does the registration of the handler.
// Now the InvokeTest has to call the member function of class object - Test.
// ?? How it can do - it can do using bind - basically, the this pointer of Test class is available to invokeTest
// therefore invokeTest can simply invoke the member function of test object.
// until the test point is valid, it can use it to invoke the method of it ?? --> Is it really correct?
delete(test); //experiment deleted the test pointer.
test= nullptr; // explicity set to nullptr
// still it works?? how come ??
invokeTest->RegisterTestHandler(1, std::bind(&Test::globalReset, test, std::placeholders::_1), summary, details);
invokeTest->callHandler(1);
return 0;
}
Here is the invokee.cpp -
#include "invokee.h"
void Invokee::RegisterTestHandler(int id, TestFunction handler, std::string summary, std::string details)
{
this->handlers[id] = handler;
this->summary[id] = summary;
this->details[id] = details;
}
void Invokee::callHandler(int id)
{
auto handler = handlers.find(id);
if (handler != handlers.end())
{
std::cout << "Found the handler --" << std::endl;
handler->second(1);
}
}
Here is the test.cpp
#include <iostream>
#include "test.h"
unsigned int Test::globalReset(int val)
{
std::cout << "global Reset invoked" << std::endl;
return 0;
}