How do you initialize template class members that uses other template classes? - c++

Question

I'm having trouble correctly setting up and accessing my member functions of a class. This node class is being used to build a Max Heap Tree. However, when the tree is being initialized, I'm getting garbage data and not what I am initializing it to.
#ifndef HEAPNODE_H_INCLUDED
#define HEAPNODE_H_INCLUDED
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <array>
using namespace std;
template <class Type> class HeapNode {
private:
int key;
Type value;
public:
HeapNode(int key, Type const &value) {
this->key = key;
this->value = value;
}
// Returns the key of the node
int getKey() {
return key;
}
// Returns the value of the node
Type getValue() {
return value;
}
// Displays the node
void displayNode() {
cout << "Key: " << key << "\tValue: " << value << endl;
}
};
#endif
Here is the class that builds my Heap Tree. I've tried setting the initializations in the constructor every which way, and I'm still getting junk data. In addition, I set the constructor to take an integer, but when I'm creating a tree in my driver program, it won't let me put an argument for it which initiates an array of that size.
#ifndef MAXHEAPTREE_H_tINCLUDED
#define MAXHEAPTREE_H_INCLUDED
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
#include "HeapNode.h"
using namespace std;
template <class Type> class MaxHeapTree {
private:
HeapNode<Type> *array;
HeapNode<Type> *root;
int elementSize;
int height;
int leafCounter;
public:
// Constructor
MaxHeapTree(int n = 10) : elementSize(0), height(0), leafCounter(0) {
this->elementSize = elementSize;
this->height = height;
this->leafCounter = leafCounter;
HeapNode<Type> *array = new HeapNode<Type>[n];
}
// Destructor
~MaxHeapTree();
void arrayDisplay() {
cout << "Original array size: " << sizeof(array)/4 << endl;
}
// Returns the number of elements in the tree
int getSize() {
return elementSize;
}
// Returns the height of the tree
int getHeight() {
return height;
}
// Returns the number of leaves in the tree
int leaves() {
return leafCounter;
}
int countLines(const string fileName) {
string line;
int lineCount = 0;
ifstream myFile (fileName.c_str());
if (myFile.is_open()) {
while (getline(myFile, line)) {
lineCount++;
}
}
else {
cout << "Error opening file" << endl;
}
myFile.close();
return lineCount;
}
// Reads structure from a text file and builds a max heap
void buildTree(const string fileName) {
string line;
string key;
string value;
int lines = countLines(fileName);
int i = 0;
cout << "Lines: " << lines << endl;
HeapNode<Type> *newArray[lines];
cout << "Size of newArray: " << sizeof(newArray)/4 << endl;
ifstream myFile (fileName.c_str());
if (myFile.is_open()) {
while (getline(myFile, line)) {
key = line.substr(0, 1);
int x = atoi(key.c_str());
value = line.substr(1);
HeapNode<Type> *hNode = new HeapNode<Type>(x, value);
newArray[i] = hNode;
cout << "newArray[" << i << "] = ";
newArray[i]->displayNode();
i++;
}
}
else {
cout << "2 - Error opening file." << endl;
}
myFile.close();
}
};
#endif

Answer 1

How do you initialize template class members that uses other template classes?
In the same way you initialize members of non templates that don't use other templates.
when the tree is being initialized, I'm getting garbage data and not what I am initializing it to.
I was using MaxHeap<string> *heapTree1;
Well, there's your problem. Apparently you never created an instance of MaxHeap<string>.