ClassIdentifier

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Important: The ClassIdentifier is derived from Identifier. Read the related Wiki-page to learn about all inherited features and functions.

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Description

The ClassIdentifier is a template? and a singleton?, derived from Identifier, with two important tasks:

• Doing some class-specific stuff
• Fast and easy link to the Identifier of a class

Uniqueness

Specially the second point is of major importance: ClassIdentifier is a singleton, meaning there's only one instance of ClassIdentifier<T> for every T. This allows you to get the Identifier of any class by calling ClassIdentifier<classname>::getIdentifier():

Identifier* identifier = ClassIdentifier<SomeClass>::getIdentifier();

This is in fact just what the Class(classname) macro in CoreIncludes does.

To assure uniqueness even in different libraries, a ClassIdentifier has to register in a map. If the Identifier for a specific class already exists, the second ClassIdentifier will just refer to the first one.