LexicalCast.h

// Copyright 2014-2015 Isis Innovation Limited and the authors of InfiniTAM

#pragma once

#include <sstream>

namespace ORUtils
{

/**
 * \brief Performs a lexical conversion from the source type to the target type.
 *
 * This is a lightweight replacement for boost::lexical_cast. It's not as
 * sophisticated as that, but it works well enough. Note that we can't use
 * exceptions, since they're not well supported on Android.
 *
 * \param src     The source value to convert.
 * \param target  A location into which to store the converted value.
 * \return        true, if the conversion succeeded, or false otherwise.
 */
template <typename Target, typename Source>
bool lexical_cast(const Source& src, Target& target)
{
  std::stringstream ss;
  ss << src;
  return ss >> target && ss.eof();
}

}