Move/Copy Constructors documentation

[C4DS]

First of all I am trying to add a "documentation issue" tag, but cannot find anything related to documentation, only issue. So forgive my limited tagging.

Right then, the actual issue I am facing:
I am trying to provide a base class and a derived class, and following the "Move/Copy Constructors" page from the R19 SDK documentation. (Cannot seem to find this in the R20 documentation).

Anyway, I follow the directives to provide a move and assignment operator, and do this in the base and derived class. All fine.
The base class is POD class, and technically doesn't require a move/copy constructor, but since the derived one needs this, I also perform the move of the base in the derived move constructor:

Base::Base(Base&& src) :
	member1(std::move(src.member1)),
	member2(std::move(src.member2))
{}

Derived::Derived(Derived&& src) :
	Base(std::move(src)),
	memberA(std::move(src.memberA)),
	memberB(std::move(src.memberB))
{}

But when it comes to the CopyFrom method, I am somewhat confused.
Performing only the necessary copy on the derived member does clear out the base class member
when adding an instanciated derived class to a BaseArray.

So I thought to perform the copy of the base members inside the CopyFrom of the derived class.

maxon::Bool Derived::CopyFrom(const Derived& src)
{
	// copy members of the base class
	member1 = src.member1;
	member2 = src.member2;
	// etc

	// copy members of the derived class
	memberA = src.memberA;
	memberB = src.memberB;
	// etc
	return TRUE;
}

This seems to work, but I would prefer some sort of copying to be provided by the base class, which I could call somehow from within the derived class.

As such I went ahead and did:

maxon::Bool Base::CopyFrom(const Base& src)
{
	member1 = src.member1;
	member2 = src.member2;
	// etc
	return TRUE;
}

maxon::Bool Derived::CopyFrom(const Derived& src)
{
	Base::CopyFrom(src);

	memberA = src.memberA;
	memberB = src.memberB;
	// etc
	return TRUE;
}

Where member1, member2 are members of the Base class, and memberA, memberB are members of the Derived class.

So, you might think "Well, what's the question"?
To which I will have to admit having actually resolved the question I had, while writing this post ...
Still, I didn't want to deprive others potentially looking for an answer to this (already answered) question.

[a_block]

Hi,

in general your approach looks correct to us.

Somehow I'm starting to regret we have a thoughtful and attentive community here. We can not hide a single change/omission in the docs without any one of you finding out about it... sigh!

Yes, indeed the "Move/Copy Constructors" manual has been removed from the R20 docs, as it needed thorough review and at least partly rewriting we did not find the time for, yet. But it wasn't removed without at least partial replacement. Especially for your case the BaseArray manual contains a section on implementing classes for use with BaseArray.

Thanks for the idea of a "documentation issue" tag.

Cheers,
Andreas