Question

Having class TaskBase, each derived class of it must have name and unique id.

The TaskBase is something like below:

class TaskBase
{
public:
    static const int id()
    {
        // return an unique id, for each object or derived class, HOW ??
    }

    static const string name()
    {
        // return class name for each derived class, HOW ??
        // for example : "TaskBase" for this class
    }
};

---

My try was :

template <typename DERIVED>
class TaskBase
{
public:

    static const int id() 
    {
        static const int id = reinterpret_cast<int> (typeid (DERIVED).name());
        return id;
    }

    static const string name() 
    {
        static string n;

        if (!n.size())
        {
            int status;
            char *realname = abi::__cxa_demangle(typeid (DERIVED).name(), 0, 0, &status);
            n = realname;
            free(realname);
        }

        return n;
    }
};

I already read this, but i need the ability to have base pointer to each derived classes, something line below:

class MyTask1 : public TaskBase
{
};

MyTask1 myTask1, myTask2;
TaskBase *base = &myTask1;

Answer 1

class TaskBase
{
private:
    const void*  m_id;
    string m_name;

public:
    TaskBase(const void* m_id, string m_name): m_id(m_id), m_name(m_name)
    {
    }

    const void* id() const
    {
        return m_id;
    }

    string name() const
    {
         return m_name;
    };
};

template< typename DERIVED >
class TaskProxy: public TaskBase
{
public:   
    static const void* id()
    {
        //if you want to have for each object a unique id:
        //return reinterpret_cast<void*>(this);
        //just for each TaskProxy<????>:
        return reinterpret_cast<const void*>(typeid( DERIVED ).name());
    }

    static string name()
    {
        return typeid( DERIVED ).name();
    }

    TaskProxy(): TaskBase(id(), name()) {}
};

Usage:

class MyTask1 : public TaskProxy< MyTask1 >
{
};

class MyTask2 : public TaskProxy< MyTask2 >
{
};

...

MyTask1 myTask1;
TaskBase *baseA = &myTask1;
MyTask2 myTask2;
TaskBase *baseB = &myTask2;

cout << "Name: " << baseA->name() << "  Id:" << baseA->id() << endl;
cout << "Name: " << baseB->name() << "  Id:" << baseB->id() << endl;

Which outputs this (with gcc 4.6):

Name: 7MyTask1  Id:0x401228
Name: 7MyTask2  Id:0x4011c0