[odb-users] Specializing wrapper_traits

[Hales, Steve]

Hi Boris,

Thanks for your help. I believe we have this mostly working now. A follow-up question: What is the purpose of null_handler and null_default in wrapper_traits?

Thanks,
Steve




On 4/27/16, 1:26 AM, "Boris Kolpackov" <boris at codesynthesis.com> wrote:

>Hi Steve,
>
>Hales, Steve <Steve.Hales at garmin.com> writes:
>
>> My team has a template class similar to odb::nullable that we would like to
>> use to wrap nullable fields. I discovered the wrapper_traits class in
>> ODB. It looks like we might be able to provide another specialization of
>> wrapper_traits for our template class. Is that correct?
>
>Yes, that's what it's for.
>
>
>> If so, are there any examples available to provide guidance on how
>> to achieve this?
>
>The ODB Boost profile library (libodb-boost) has a specialization for
>boost::optional. It shows how to do this "properly", i.e., it is completely
>non-intrusive and can be enabled via the profile mechanism (pass
>--profile|-p boost/optional). You can also do it like this, or you can add
>the necessary prologue/epilogue options (see boost/optional.options) to the
>ODB command line, or you can simply add the wrapper_traits specialization
>into the same header as you nullable class template and then you won't need
>to pass anything to the ODB compiler.
>
>Boris

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