Type Map

SMTK’s type map (TypeMap) is a generalized map for storing and accessing data using both a type and a user-defined key type. Unlike TypeContainer, a type map has an additional key index; a TypeMap can therefore contain multiple instances of a single type, each accessed by a unique key. This additional level of misdirection gives the type map more flexibility than a type container, at the expsense of an additional lookup phase. In addition, serialization routines are provided for the type map that facilitate its transcription to and from json.

An example that demonstrates the prinicples and API of this pattern can be found at smtk/comon/testing/cxx/UnitTestTypeMap.cxx.