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Templated Class Function, does not have a class type

Zephilinox (595)
I'm trying to template the return type for this function (component), I've looked around for example code but there doesn't seem to be any exactly like what I want, could someone help me out? thanks.

Entity.hpp

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class Entity
{
public:
    Entity();
    unsigned int id = 0;
    Component& addComponent(std::string);
    bool removeComponent(std::string);
    bool hasComponent(std::string);
    template<typename T> T& component();
private:
    std::vector<Component> m_Components;
};


Entity.cpp

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template<typename T>
T& Entity::component<T>()
{
    for (unsigned int i = 0; i < m_Components.size(); ++i)
    {
        if (m_Components.at(i).name == T.name)
        {
            return m_Components.at(i);
        }
    }

    return *(new Component); //will fix this later
}


main.cpp

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    EntityManager EntManager;
    Entity ent1 = EntManager.createEntity();
    ent1.addComponent("HealthComponent"); //will make it templated later

    ent1.component<HealthComponent>.health = 10;


error


'ent1.component<HealthComponent>' does not have class type
Last edited on
cire (8284)
'ent1.component<HealthComponent>' does not have class type


After seeing that you look at the code and see that component is, indeed, not a class type, so you look more closely at the offending line and the declaration component.

"Hmm.. it's a function," you say to yourself. "Shouldn't I be using parentheses to indicate a function call?"
Zephilinox (595)
holy crap, I can't believe I didn't see that, thanks :]
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