From 62753c815b5ec34ebfae37a3c89187a01cc17160 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Buland <mbuland@penny-arcade.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 19:09:04 -0700
Subject: Minor quality of life additions to string and variant.

More coming to string.  I need to figure some things out in variant.
---
 src/stable/variant.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

(limited to 'src/stable/variant.h')

diff --git a/src/stable/variant.h b/src/stable/variant.h
index af06815..7189d7a 100644
--- a/src/stable/variant.h
+++ b/src/stable/variant.h
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ namespace Bu
         virtual const std::type_info &getType() const=0;
         virtual VariantTypeRoot *clone() const=0;
         virtual void format( Bu::Formatter &f ) const=0;
+        virtual const void *rawData() const=0;
     };
 
     template<class t>
@@ -75,6 +76,11 @@ namespace Bu
         {
             f << data;
         }
+        
+        virtual const void *rawData() const
+        {
+            return &data;
+        }
 
         virtual const std::type_info &getType() const
         {
@@ -173,6 +179,21 @@ namespace Bu
             }
             return dynamic_cast<VariantType<t> *>(pCore)->getData();
         }
+
+        template<class t>
+        t &cast() const
+        {
+            if( !pCore )
+            {
+                throw Bu::ExceptionBase("No data!");
+            }
+
+            t *p = dynamic_cast<t *>(pCore->rawData());
+            if( p == NULL )
+                throw Bu::ExceptionBase("Invalid type conversion.");
+
+            return *p;
+        }
         
         template<class t>
         void set( const t &val )
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