cgal/STL_Extension/include/CGAL/is_streamable.h

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// Copyright (c) 2012 GeometryFactory Sarl (France)
// All rights reserved.
//
// $URL$
// $Id$
// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSL-1.0
//
// Author(s) : Laurent Rineau, Philipp Moeller
#ifndef CGAL_IS_STREAMABLE_H
#define CGAL_IS_STREAMABLE_H
#include <iostream>
namespace CGAL {
namespace internal {
namespace is_streamable
{
// A tag type returned by operator == for the any struct in this namespace
// when T does not support ==.
struct tag {};
// This type soaks up any implicit conversions and makes the following operator ==
// less preferred than any other such operator found via ADL.
struct any
{
// Conversion constructor for any type.
template <class T>
any(T const&);
};
tag operator<<(any const&, any const&);
tag operator>>(any const&, any const&);
// Two overloads to distinguish whether T supports a certain operator expression.
// The first overload returns a reference to a two-element character array and is chosen if
// T does not support the expression, such as ==, whereas the second overload returns a char
// directly and is chosen if T supports the expression. So using sizeof(check(<expression>))
// returns 2 for the first overload and 1 for the second overload.
typedef char yes;
typedef char (&no)[2];
no check(tag);
template <class T>
yes check(T const&);
template <class T>
struct is_streamable_impl
{
static std::remove_cv_t<std::remove_reference_t<T>> const & x;
static std::remove_cv_t<std::remove_reference_t<T>> & y;
static const bool value =
sizeof(is_streamable::check(std::cout << x)) == sizeof(is_streamable::yes) &&
sizeof(is_streamable::check(std::cin >> y)) == sizeof(is_streamable::yes);
};
} // end namespace internal::is_streamable
} // end namespace internal
/// is_streamable is a meta-function that checks if a type is streamable
///
/// is_streamable<T>::value is true iff the type T has stream operators <<
/// and >>. Otherwise it is false.
template <class T>
struct is_streamable
: internal::is_streamable::is_streamable_impl<T> {};
} // end namespace CGAL
#endif // CGAL_IS_STREAMABLE_H