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Solution: Callback Function Compatibility Validation

Understand how to use C++ concepts and constraints to validate callback function compatibility. Learn to implement callable_with_args and callable_with_return concepts and apply static_assert for compile-time validation to ensure functions match expected argument and return types. This lesson guides you through practical code examples and explanations to improve your template metaprogramming safety and reliability.

Performing callback function validation using concepts

Let’s execute the provided solution for the callback function compatibility validation challenge and observe the code output. Subsequently, we’ll dissect the code step by step.

C++
#include <iostream>
#include <concepts>
#include <string>
// Define concepts here
template <typename Callable, typename... Args>
concept callable_with_args = std::invocable<Callable, Args...>;
template <typename Callable, typename Return, typename... Args>
concept callable_with_return = requires(Callable func, Args... args) {
{ func(args...) } -> std::same_as<Return>;
};
// Implement CallbackValidator class here
template <typename Callable, typename Return, typename... Args>
class CallbackValidator {
public:
CallbackValidator(Callable func) : callable(func) {}
// The validation member function
void validate() {
static_assert(callable_with_args<Callable, Args...>, "Invalid argument types");
static_assert(callable_with_return<Callable, Return, Args...>, "Invalid return type");
std::cout << "The object is compatible.\n";
}
private:
Callable callable;
};
// Class definition for example usage
struct Concatenator {
std::string operator()(char a, char b) const {
return std::to_string(a) + std::to_string(b);
}
};
int main() {
// Performing the validation check for lambda function
auto add = [](int a, int b) { return static_cast<double>(a + b); };
CallbackValidator<decltype(add), double, int, int> validator1(add);
validator1.validate();
// Performing the validation check for Concatenator class
Concatenator concatenator;
CallbackValidator<Concatenator, std::string, char, char> validator2(concatenator);
validator2.validate();
return 0;
}

Explanation

Let’s go over how each code block works in the widget above.

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