Patterns::Tools Namespace Reference

Namespaces
	internal

Classes
struct	Convert
struct	Convert< ComponentMask >
struct	Convert< Point< dim, Number > >
struct	Convert< std::complex< Number > >
struct	Convert< std::pair< Key, Value > >
struct	Convert< std::string >
struct	Convert< std::tuple< Args... > >
struct	Convert< std::unique_ptr< FunctionParser< dim > > >
struct	Convert< T, typename std::enable_if< is_list_compatible< T >::value >::type >
struct	Convert< T, typename std::enable_if< is_map_compatible< T >::value >::type >
struct	Convert< T, typename std::enable_if< std::is_arithmetic< T >::value >::type >
struct	Convert< Tensor< rank, dim, Number > >
struct	Convert< VectorTools::NormType, void >
struct	is_list_compatible
struct	is_map_compatible

Functions
template<typename T >
std::string	to_string (const T &t)
template<typename T >
void	to_value (const std::string &s, T &t)
static ::ExceptionBase &	ExcNoMatch (std::string arg1, std::string arg2)

Detailed Description

Namespace for a few classes and functions that act on values and patterns, and allow to convert from non elementary types to strings and vice versa.

A typical usage of these tools is in the following example:

using T = std::vector<unsigned int>;
 
T vec(3);
vec[0] = 1;
vec[1] = 3;
vec[2] = 5;
 
auto pattern = Patterns::Tools::Convert<T>::to_pattern();
 
std::cout << pattern->description() << std::endl;
// [List of <[Integer]> of length 0...4294967295 (inclusive)]
 
auto s = Patterns::Tools::Convert<T>::to_string(vec);
std::cout << s << std::endl;
// 1, 2, 3
 
auto vec = Patterns::Tools::Convert<T>::to_value("2,3,4,5");
// now vec has size 4, and contains the elements 2,3,4,5
 
std::cout << internal::RankInfo<T>::list_rank << std::endl; // Outputs 1
std::cout << internal::RankInfo<T>::map_rank  << std::endl; // Outputs 0

Convert<T> is used by the function Patterns::Tools::add_parameter() in this namespace. Internally it uses the internal::RankInfo<T> class to decide how many different separators are required to convert the given type to a string.

For example, to write vectors of vectors, the default is to use "," for the first (inner) separator, and ";" for the second (outer) separator, i.e.

std::vector<std::vector<unsigned int>> vec;
vec = Convert<decltype(vec)>::to_value("1,2,3 ; 4,5,6");
 
s = convert<decltype(vec[0])>::to_string(vec[0]);
// s now contains the string "1,2,3"

Separators for Patterns::List and Patterns::Map compatible types are selected according to the rank of the list and map objects, using the arrays Patterns::Tools::internal::default_list_separator and Patterns::Tools::internal::default_map_separator.

They are currently set to:

default_list_separator{{","  ,  ";"  ,  "|"  ,   "%"}};
default_map_separator {{":"  ,  "="  ,  "@"  ,   "#"}};

When one needs a mixture of Patterns::List and Patterns::Map types, their RankInfo is computed by taking the maximum of the vector_rank of the Key and of the Value type, so that, for example, it is possible to have the following

... // Build compare class
std::map<std::vector<unsigned int>, std::vector<double>, compare> map;
 
map = convert<decltype(map)>::to_value(
  "1,2,3 : 5.0,6.0,7.0  ; 8,9,10 : 11.0,12.0,13.0");

Some non elementary types are supported, like Point(), or std::complex<double>. If you wish to support more types, you have to specialize the Convert struct as well as the RankInfo struct.

Author

Luca Heltai, 2017