[aspectc-user] help: how can I modify the result returned from a function/method

[Olaf Spinczyk]

Hi Paolo,

Paolo Calafiura schrieb:
> newbie question: I inserted a new data member into a Key class, and I
> want to use the data member to redefine sorting based on this key. This
> boils down to changing the return value of a method of this Key class
>  bool Key::lessThan(const Key& rhs) const;
> using the extra data member. I can insert a new method
>  bool Key::threadedLessThan(const Key& rhs) const;
> but I have found no way to replace all calls to lessThan with calls to
> threadedLessThan. I can of course define an around advice for lessThan
> and call threadedLessThan from inside there, but I don't see how to pass
> the bool returned by threadedLessThan out to the caller of the original
> lessThan.
>  Using either tjp->result() or the result context seems to give me 
> read-only access to the result...
> 
>  Thanks for any suggestion

After calling lessThan() indirectly with tjp->proceed() you can read 
*and modify* the result value. "tjp->result()" gives you a pointer to 
the returned object. It is not a "read-only" handle. You change modify 
the result value for example with "*tjp->result() = false;".

Olaf