SmartPtr: add reset()

This mimics the behavior of boost smart pointers and is useful for
code where variables can be of either type, because "= NULL" is
not supported by our boost::intrusive_ptr wrapper.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/syncevo/SmartPtr.h b/src/syncevo/SmartPtr.h
index d0af9661..7f8c22dc 100644
--- a/src/syncevo/SmartPtr.h
+++ b/src/syncevo/SmartPtr.h
@@ -148,6 +148,10 @@ class SmartPtr
         m_pointer = pointer;
     }
 
+    void reset( T pointer = NULL ) {
+        set(pointer, NULL);
+    }
+
     /**
      * transfer ownership over the pointer to caller and stop tracking it:
      * pointer tracked by smart pointer is set to NULL and the original
@@ -178,6 +182,10 @@ template<class T, class base = T, class R = Unref > class eptr :
         base_t::set(pointer);
         return *this;
     }
+
+    void reset(T *pointer = NULL) {
+        base_t::set(pointer);
+    }
 };
 
 template <class T> class CxxUnref {