Interfacing and Inheritage of template classes in c++ [closed]
Hello everyone, I have a problem with a project using template class inheritance. The idea is to have an agent that has a pointer to a msgtype. The msgtypes can differ, that's why a template class comes into game. The idea is to store the different message types via an interface class. To initialize the interface pointer in Agent with an instance of msgtype I need to include #include "msginterface.h" and #include "msgtype.h". Unfortunately, if I just include "msginterface.h", the project compiles just fine. But if I add #include "msgtype.h" in Agent.h that I require for the initialization. I get this crazy error:
The error I get is:
error: expected template-name before ‘<’ token class Msg:public MsgInterface<t>{ ^ /home/Catkin/src/template_class/src/msg.h:10:30: error: expected ‘{’ before ‘<’ token /home/Catkin/src/template_class/src/msg.h:10:30: error: expected unqualified-id before ‘<’ token
Do you have any idea what's the reason for this error?
The error can be reproduced with the following code:
//main.cpp
#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <agent.h>
using namespace std;
int main(void){
cout<<"Hello world"<<endl;
}
//agent.h
#ifndef _AGENT
#define _AGENT
#include "msginterface.h"
#include "msgtype.h"
class Agent{
MsgInterface* msg;
};
#endif
//msginterface.h
#ifndef _MSGINTERFACE
#define _MSGINTERFACE
#include <stdio.h>
#include <agent.h>
using namespace std;
class Agent; //Forward Declaration
class MsgInterface{
Agent* agent;
};
#endif
//msg.h
#ifndef _MSG
#define _MSG
#include <stdio.h>
#include <agent.h>
#include "msginterface.h"
using namespace std;
template <class T>
class Msg:public MsgInterface<T>{
};
#endif
//msgtype.h
#ifndef _MSGTYPE
#define _MSGTYPE
#include <stdio.h>
#include "agent.h"
#include "msg.h"
using namespace std;
template <class S>
class MsgTape:public Msg<S>{
};
#endif