cppcheck/test/redirect.h

// Cppcheck - A tool for static C/C++ code analysis
// Copyright (C) 2007-2010 Daniel Marjamäki and Cppcheck team.
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#ifndef REDIRECT_H
#define REDIRECT_H

#include <iostream>

extern std::ostringstream errout;
extern std::ostringstream output;
/**
  * @brief Utility class for capturing cout and cerr to ostringstream buffers
  * for later use. Uses RAII to stop redirection when the object goes out of
  * scope.
  */
class RedirectOutputError {
public:
    /** Set up redirection, flushing anything in the pipes. */
    RedirectOutputError() {
        // flush all old output
        std::cout.flush();
        std::cerr.flush();

        _oldCout = std::cout.rdbuf(); // back up cout's streambuf
        _oldCerr = std::cerr.rdbuf(); // back up cerr's streambuf

        std::cout.rdbuf(_out.rdbuf()); // assign streambuf to cout
        std::cerr.rdbuf(_err.rdbuf()); // assign streambuf to cerr
    }

    /** Revert cout and cerr behaviour */
    ~RedirectOutputError() {
        std::cout.rdbuf(_oldCout); // restore cout's original streambuf
        std::cerr.rdbuf(_oldCerr); // restore cerrs's original streambuf

        errout << _err.str();
        output << _out.str();
    }

    /** Return what would be printed to cout. See also clearOutput() */
    std::string getOutput() {
        return _out.str();
    }

    /** Normally called after getOutput() to prevent same text to be returned
    twice. */
    void clearOutput() {
        _out.str("");
    }

private:
    std::stringstream _out;
    std::stringstream _err;
    std::streambuf* _oldCout;
    std::streambuf *_oldCerr;
};

#define REDIRECT RedirectOutputError redir;
#define GET_REDIRECT_OUTPUT redir.getOutput()
#define CLEAR_REDIRECT_OUTPUT redir.clearOutput()

#endif