icu::UObject Class Reference

UObject is the common ICU "boilerplate" class. More...

#include <uobject.h>

Inheritance diagram for icu::UObject:
icu::UMemory icu::Appendable icu::BreakIterator icu::DateInterval icu::FilteredBreakIteratorBuilder icu::final icu::ForwardCharacterIterator icu::IDNA icu::Locale icu::LocaleBuilder icu::LocaleDisplayNames icu::MessagePattern icu::Normalizer icu::Normalizer2 icu::ParagraphLayout icu::ParagraphLayout::Line icu::ParagraphLayout::VisualRun icu::ParsePosition icu::Replaceable icu::ResourceBundle icu::RunArray icu::StringEnumeration icu::StringTrieBuilder icu::UnicodeFunctor icu::UnicodeSetIterator

Public Member Functions

virtual ~UObject ()
 Destructor.
virtual UClassID getDynamicClassID () const
 ICU4C "poor man's RTTI", returns a UClassID for the actual ICU class.

Detailed Description

UObject is the common ICU "boilerplate" class.

UObject inherits UMemory (starting with ICU 2.4), and all other public ICU C++ classes are derived from UObject (starting with ICU 2.2).

UObject contains common virtual functions, in particular a virtual destructor.

The clone() function is not available in UObject because it is not implemented by all ICU classes. Many ICU services provide a clone() function for their class trees, defined on the service's C++ base class (which itself is a subclass of UObject).

Stable:
ICU 2.2

Definition at line 223 of file uobject.h.


Constructor & Destructor Documentation

virtual icu::UObject::~UObject (  )  [virtual]

Destructor.

Stable:
ICU 2.2

Member Function Documentation

virtual UClassID icu::UObject::getDynamicClassID (  )  const [virtual]

ICU4C "poor man's RTTI", returns a UClassID for the actual ICU class.

The base class implementation returns a dummy value.

Use compiler RTTI rather than ICU's "poor man's RTTI". Since ICU 4.6, new ICU C++ class hierarchies do not implement "poor man's RTTI".

Stable:
ICU 2.2

Reimplemented in icu::BreakIterator, icu::final, icu::ForwardCharacterIterator, icu::DateInterval, icu::Locale, icu::Normalizer, icu::ParsePosition, icu::RuleBasedBreakIterator, icu::ResourceBundle, icu::StringCharacterIterator, icu::UCharCharacterIterator, icu::UnicodeFunctor, icu::final, icu::UnicodeString, icu::UnicodeSetIterator, icu::ParagraphLayout::Line, icu::ParagraphLayout::VisualRun, icu::ParagraphLayout, icu::RunArray, icu::FontRuns, icu::LocaleRuns, and icu::ValueRuns.


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