[Ns-bugs] [Bug 518] Constructing objects from a TypeId seems complex

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http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=518





--- Comment #4 from Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <gjcarneiro at gmail.com>  2009-03-09 15:06:30 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > I did have the feeling I was missing something... :-)
> > 
> > Still, it would be nice to construct an object directly from a TypeId.  It's
> > how e.g. Python works: you call the type and as result you get an instance of
> > that type.  It's rather uncomplicated.
> 
> The main reason why this is not so is that a TypeId can represent anything
> which derives from ObjectBase while ObjectFactory can only create objects which
> derive from Object.

I don't see how one thing invalidates the other:

   Ptr<T> TypeId::operator() const;

This is type agnostic; can build anything that is reference countable ;-)


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