formatter.hpp

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/*
   Copyright (C) 2003 - 2018 by David White <dave@whitevine.net>
   Part of the Battle for Wesnoth Project https://www.wesnoth.org/

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.

   See the COPYING file for more details.
*/

#pragma once

#include <sstream>
#include <utility>

/**
 * std::ostringstream wrapper.
 *
 * ostringstream's operator<< doesn't return a ostringstream&. It returns an
 * ostream& instead. This is unfortunate, because it means that you can't do
 * something like this: (ostringstream() << n).str() to convert an integer to a
 * string, all in one line instead you have to use this far more tedious
 * approach:
 *  ostringstream s;
 *  s << n;
 *  s.str();
 * This class corrects this shortcoming, allowing something like this:
 *  string result = (formatter() << "blah " << n << x << " blah").str();
 *
 * Actually, due to the ref qualified versions below, you can get away with this
 *
 *  string result = formatter() << "blah " << n << x << " blah";
 */
class formatter
{
public:
    formatter()
        : stream_()
    {
    }

    template<typename T>
    formatter& operator<<(const T& o) &
    {
        stream_ << o;
        return *this;
    }

    template<typename T>
    formatter&& operator<<(const T& o) &&
    {
        stream_ << o;
        return std::move(*this);
    }

    std::string str() const
    {
        return stream_.str();
    }

    // Implicit x-value conversion to string
    operator std::string() const &&
    {
        return stream_.str();
    }
    
    // Support manipulators
    formatter& operator<<(std::ostream&(*fn)(std::ostream&)) &
    {
        fn(stream_);
        return *this;
    }
    
    formatter&& operator<<(std::ostream&(*fn)(std::ostream&)) &&
    {
        fn(stream_);
        return std::move(*this);
    }
    
    formatter& operator<<(std::ios_base&(*fn)(std::ios_base&)) &
    {
        fn(stream_);
        return *this;
    }

    formatter&& operator<<(std::ios_base&(*fn)(std::ios_base&)) &&
    {
        fn(stream_);
        return std::move(*this);
    }

private:
    std::ostringstream stream_;
};