Is it possible to defer member initialization to the constructor body?
- by Kjir
I have a class with an object as a member which doesn't have a default constructor. I'd like to initialize this member in the constructor, but it seems that in C++ I can't do that. Here is the class:
#include <boost/asio.hpp>
#include <boost/array.hpp>
using boost::asio::ip::udp;
template<class T>
class udp_sock
{
public:
udp_sock(std::string host, unsigned short port);
private:
boost::asio::io_service _io_service;
udp::socket _sock;
boost::array<T,256> _buf;
};
template<class T>
udp_sock<T>::udp_sock(std::string host = "localhost",
unsigned short port = 50000)
{
udp::resolver res(_io_service);
udp::resolver::query query(udp::v4(), host, "spec");
udp::endpoint ep = *res.resolve(query);
ep.port(port);
_sock(_io_service, ep);
}
The compiler tells me basically that it can't find a default constructor for udp::socket and by my research I understood that C++ implicitly initializes every member before calling the constructor. Is there any way to do it the way I wanted to do it, or is it too "Java-oriented" and not feasible in C++?
I worked around the problem by defining my constructor like this:
template<class T>
udp_sock<T>::udp_sock(std::string host = "localhost",
unsigned short port = 50000) : _sock(_io_service)
{
udp::resolver res(_io_service);
udp::resolver::query query(udp::v4(), host, "spec");
udp::endpoint ep = *res.resolve(query);
ep.port(port);
_sock.bind(ep);
}
So my question is more out of curiosity and to better understand OOP in C++
