create a objects vector class

[Jazi]

I am newbie to c++ and I would like to build a vector class that returns a vector of objects. I have done some thing like this:

student class that contains some of student's properties such as name, address, phone etc.

I also have a registered students class which I like to have it as a vector of student objects. The way I have done it so far is like this.

RegisteredStduents class{
   RegisteredStudents(no_of_students);
  vector<studnet> get_students(by_age){
   vector<student>  results;
   student stud_obj=new student();
   for(query students based on age{
        stud_obj->set_name(blahblah);
        stud_obj->set_address(blahblah);
        results->push_back(stud_obj);
    }
    delete stud_obj;
    return results;   
   }
   void set_no_students(no_of_students){
       return no_of_students;
   }
}

This class works fine but I thought there might be a better way to do this. Instead of having a function "get_students" that returns a vector of objects, I can have the whole class to be a vector and in my get_students I can push_back the students objects back to the class vector. I am not really positive on how to do that.

So I will be grateful if someone tell me how to do that or send me a link to an example on the web. I have been searching all over the place but no luck so far. Also it will be helpful if you can show me in how to call this class from a driver (i.e ).

[DeMan]

Not quite sure what you mean.....
Or how push_back is implemented.....

Incedently, you have a void function (set_no_students) which aooears to return an int......

[Jazi]

Not quite sure what you mean.....
Or how push_back is implemented.....

Incedently, you have a void function (set_no_students) which aooears to return an int......

Sorry for not being clearer in explaining what I want to do but here is what I have. I am showing two functions in this class to illustrate my class :set_no_students and get_all_students. The set_no_students is a separate function within that class which is not important in here. I should not have included it in here but please ignore it for now. However, the get_all_students is my concerned function that returns a vector of objects students. In that function I create an object and then I push it into the vector and then I return that vector back whenever called. I thought there might be a better approach than this.

In fact, this class works fine. I have tested it using c++ driver and everything is great. The issue us when I try to wrap java around this class using SWIG. I am having hard time accessing the vector objects from java once I call this function. So I thought this may work if I implement this class differently. So instead of having this function returns a vector it should push these objects to the main class itself. And this is where I want help or different approach. Does this make any sense to you?

[weaknessforcats]

I think there's a wrong approach here.

Instead of a RegisteredStudents class, there should be a vector of Students:

vector<Student> RegisteredStudents;
 

You can use the remove_copy_if() algorithm to copy all Students to another vector<Students> based on a specified age.

[Jazi]

So how do you recommend I go about building that class?

[weaknessforcats]

So how do you recommend I go about building that class?

You don't have to build a class. You just create a vector<Student> and then use vector methods or maybe write your own functions taking vector<Student::iterator arguments.

In this approach, the students are registered because they are in the vector<Student> object and not because they are objects of a RegisteredStudent class.