C++ Class Templates (Queue of a class)
- by Dalton Conley
Ok, so I have my basic linked Queue class with basic functions such as front(), empty() etc.. and I have transformed it into a template. Now, I also have a class called Student. Which holds 2 values: Student name and Student Id. I can print out a student with the following code..
Student me("My Name", 2);
cout << me << endl;
Here is my display function for student:
void display(ostream &out) const {
out << "Student Name: " << name << "\tStudent Id: " << id
<< "\tAddress: " << this << endl;
}
Now it works fine, you can see the basic output. Now I'm declaring a queue like so..
Queue<Student> qstu;
Storing data in this queue is fine, I can add new values and such.. now what I'm trying to do is print out my whole queue of students with:
cout << qstu << endl;
But its simply returning an address.. here is my display function for queues.
void display(ostream & out) const {
NodePointer ptr;
ptr = myFront;
while(ptr != NULL) {
out << ptr->data << " ";
ptr = ptr->next;
}
out << endl;
}
Now, based on this, I assume ptr-data is a Student type and I would assume this would work, but it doesn't. Is there something I'm missing? Also, when I Try:
ptr->data.display(out);
(Making the assumtion ptr-data is of type student, it does not work which tells me I am doing something wrong.
Help on this would be much appreciated!
