// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Copyright (C) 2002-2006 Marcin Kalicinski // // Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. // (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at // http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) // // For more information, see www.boost.org // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #include #include #include #include #include using namespace boost::property_tree; // Process settings using empty ptree trick. Note that it is considerably simpler // than version which does not use the "trick" void process_settings(const std::string &filename) { ptree pt; read_info(filename, pt); const ptree &settings = pt.get_child("settings", empty_ptree()); std::cout << "\n Processing " << filename << std::endl; std::cout << " Setting 1 is " << settings.get("setting1", 0) << std::endl; std::cout << " Setting 2 is " << settings.get("setting2", 0.0) << std::endl; std::cout << " Setting 3 is " << settings.get("setting3", "default") << std::endl; } // Process settings not using empty ptree trick. This one must duplicate much of the code. void process_settings_without_trick(const std::string &filename) { ptree pt; read_info(filename, pt); if (boost::optional settings = pt.get_child_optional("settings")) { std::cout << "\n Processing " << filename << std::endl; std::cout << " Setting 1 is " << settings.get().get("setting1", 0) << std::endl; std::cout << " Setting 2 is " << settings.get().get("setting2", 0.0) << std::endl; std::cout << " Setting 3 is " << settings.get().get("setting3", "default") << std::endl; } else { std::cout << "\n Processing " << filename << std::endl; std::cout << " Setting 1 is " << 0 << std::endl; std::cout << " Setting 2 is " << 0.0 << std::endl; std::cout << " Setting 3 is " << "default" << std::endl; } } int main() { try { std::cout << "Processing settings with empty-ptree-trick:\n"; process_settings("settings_fully-existent.info"); process_settings("settings_partially-existent.info"); process_settings("settings_non-existent.info"); std::cout << "\nProcessing settings without empty-ptree-trick:\n"; process_settings_without_trick("settings_fully-existent.info"); process_settings_without_trick("settings_partially-existent.info"); process_settings_without_trick("settings_non-existent.info"); } catch (std::exception &e) { std::cout << "Error: " << e.what() << "\n"; } return 0; }