Overview

Managers are auxiliary objects that hold extra information about a RoseObject. Your application can define RoseManager subclasses to store temporary translation results, reverse-pointers, and other cached values. Information in managers is never written to a part 21 file.

The ROSE library uses managers to hold extra database information such as overflow attributes and external references. Both persistent and non-persistent objects can have managers.

The RoseObject::find_manager(), add_manager(), and remove_manager() functions find, attach, and delete managers from RoseObjects. In addition, the DECLARE/IMPLEMENT macros below can provide simplified find and make functions. There is also additional discussion in Manager Objects.

DECLARE/IMPLEMENT Macros

ROSE_DECLARE_MANAGER_COMMON();
ROSE_DECLARE_MANAGER_FIND(<classname>);
ROSE_DECLARE_MANAGER_MAKE(<classname>);

ROSE_IMPLEMENT_MANAGER_COMMON(<classname>);
ROSE_IMPLEMENT_MANAGER_FIND(<classname>);
ROSE_IMPLEMENT_MANAGER_MAKE(<classname>);

These DECLARE and IMPLEMENT macros provide identification and search functions needed by manager objects. Use the DECLARE macros within the class declaration of a manager subclass, and place the IMPLEMENT macro with the other function definitions for the class. The COMMON macro is required, the FIND and MAKE are optional.

The COMMON macro declares a virtual manager_type() function that returns the RoseManagerType type code identifying the class of an instance. It also declares a static type() function that provides the type code for that particular class, which is used by to RoseObject::find_manager() and RoseObject::remove_manager().

ROSE_DECLARE_MANAGER_COMMON() expands to:

virtual RoseManagerType manager_type();
static  RoseManagerType type();

The FIND macro declares a static find() function that calls RoseObject::find_manager() to search a RoseObject for that type of manager, and returns it, cast as the appropriate type, if found.

ROSE_DECLARE_MANAGER_FIND(MySpecialManager) expands to:

static MySpecialManager * find (RoseObject * obj);

The MAKE macro declares a static make() function that searches a RoseObject for that type of manager as above, but creates a new manager and adds it to the RoseObject, if one is not already present. The IMPLEMENT macro uses the default constructor for the manager.

ROSE_DECLARE_MANAGER_MAKE(MySpecialManager) expands to:

static MySpecialManager * make (RoseObject * obj);

The Example below defines the CountManager class to associate a count variable with STEP objects. It also defines static find() and make() functions for it.

/* in your header file */
class CountManager : public RoseManager
{
public:
    unsigned long m_count;

    CountManager() { m_count=0; }
    ROSE_DECLARE_MANAGER_COMMON();
    ROSE_DECLARE_MANAGER_FIND(CountManager);
    ROSE_DECLARE_MANAGER_MAKE(CountManager);
};

/* In your cxx file */
ROSE_IMPLEMENT_MANAGER_COMMON (CountManager)
ROSE_IMPLEMENT_MANAGER_FIND (CountManager)
ROSE_IMPLEMENT_MANAGER_MAKE (CountManager)

manager_type()

virtual RoseManagerType manager_type();

The manager_type() function identifies the type of a manager instance. It returns the value of the type() static function for the class. This function is defined for each subclass by the COMMON macros.

This is used by find_manager() and remove_manager() when scanning the managers associated with a RoseObject.

type() (subclass static fn)

static RoseManagerType type();

Every subclass has a static type() function that returns a unique RoseManagerType value. This value is used to search the managers by the RoseObject::find_manager() or RoseObject::remove_manager() functions.

The COMMON macros create this function for each subclass.

Consider a CountManager subtype. The following code adds a manager and finds it again using the type()

cartesian_point * pt;
CountManager * mgr;

// find a previously added manager on the point.  If none
// is present, then add a new one */
mgr = (CountManager*) pt-> find_manager (CountManager::type());
if (!mgr) {
    mgr = new CountMagager;
    pt-> add_manager (mgr);
}

// use or change a count value on the manager
mgr-> m_count++;

The find() and make() functions declared by the FIND and MAKE macros make this process even simpler:

cartesian_point * pt;
CountManager * mgr = CountManager::make(pt);

// use or change a count value on the manager
mgr-> m_count++;

When the cartesian point is deleted, any associated managers are deleted as well. We can remove managers explicitly as shown below:

/* remove any CountManager on the object */
pt-> remove_manager (CountManager::type());