From 716a50be7875cb4e5764137196fba285e0ce31a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?S=C3=A9bastien=20Rombauts?= <sebastien.rombauts@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 07:14:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added inline cast operators to the Column::getXxx()
 appropriate functions

+ added a standard std::ostream inserter
---
 src/SQLiteC++/Column.cpp |  8 +++++++
 src/SQLiteC++/Column.h   | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 src/example1/main.cpp    |  8 ++++++-
 3 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/SQLiteC++/Column.cpp b/src/SQLiteC++/Column.cpp
index 005fe95..b4e0bba 100644
--- a/src/SQLiteC++/Column.cpp
+++ b/src/SQLiteC++/Column.cpp
@@ -53,3 +53,11 @@ const char * Column::getText(void) const // throw(SQLite::Exception)
 
 
 };  // namespace SQLite
+
+
+// Standard std::ostream inserter
+std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream &stream, SQLite::Column const& column)
+{
+    stream << column.getText();
+    return stream;
+}
diff --git a/src/SQLiteC++/Column.h b/src/SQLiteC++/Column.h
index 89dfc05..5d93836 100644
--- a/src/SQLiteC++/Column.h
+++ b/src/SQLiteC++/Column.h
@@ -33,25 +33,44 @@ public:
      * @brief Compile and register the SQL query for the provided SQLite Database Connection
      */
     explicit Column(sqlite3* apSQLite, sqlite3_stmt* apStmt, int aIndex) throw(); // nothrow
+    /// Basic destructor
     virtual ~Column(void) throw(); // nothrow
 
-    /**
-     * @brief Return the integer value of the column
-     */
+    /// Return the integer value of the column.
     int             getInt   (void) const; // throw(SQLite::Exception);
-    /**
-     * @brief Return the 64bits integer value of the column
-     */
+    // Return the 64bits integer value of the column.
     sqlite3_int64   getInt64 (void) const; // throw(SQLite::Exception);
-    /**
-     * @brief Return the double (64bits float) value of the column
-     */
+    // Return the double (64bits float) value of the column.
     double          getDouble(void) const; // throw(SQLite::Exception);
-    /**
-     * @brief Return the text value (NULL terminated string) of the column
-     */
+    // Return the text value (NULL terminated string) of the column.
     const char*     getText  (void) const; // throw(SQLite::Exception);
 
+    /// Inline cast operator to int
+    inline operator const int() const
+    {
+        return getInt();
+    }
+    /// Inline cast operator to 64bits integer
+    inline operator const sqlite3_int64() const
+    {
+        return getInt64();
+    }
+    /// Inline cast operator to double
+    inline operator const double() const
+    {
+        return getDouble();
+    }
+    /// Inline cast operator to char*
+    inline operator const char*() const
+    {
+        return getText();
+    }
+    /// Inline cast operator to std::string
+    inline operator const std::string() const
+    {
+        return getText();
+    }
+
 private:
     // Column is copyable, but copy should not be used elsewhere than in return form getColumn
     Column(void);
@@ -65,3 +84,7 @@ private:
 
 
 };  // namespace SQLite
+
+
+/// Standard std::ostream inserter
+std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream &stream, SQLite::Column const& column);
diff --git a/src/example1/main.cpp b/src/example1/main.cpp
index c4d9f72..47ae027 100644
--- a/src/example1/main.cpp
+++ b/src/example1/main.cpp
@@ -17,7 +17,13 @@ int main (void)
 
         while (query.executeStep())
         {
-            std::cout << "row : (" << query.getColumn(0).getInt() << ", " << query.getColumn(1).getText() << ", " << query.getColumn(2).getInt() << ")\n";
+            int         id      = query.getColumn(0); // = query.getColumn(0).getInt()
+          //const char* pvalue  = query.getColumn(1); // = query.getColumn(1).getText()
+            std::string value   = query.getColumn(1); // = query.getColumn(1).getText()
+            int         size    = query.getColumn(2); // = query.getColumn(2).getInt()
+
+            std::cout << "row : (" << id << ", " << value << ", " << size << ")\n";
+            std::cout << "row : (" << query.getColumn(0) << ", " << query.getColumn(1) << ", " << query.getColumn(2) << ")\n";
         }
     }
     catch (std::exception& e)