[Discuss-gnuradio] Parent Class For UHD USRP Source/Sink

[Daniel Labarowski]

Hello,
I am working on a C++ block which will call the set_center_freq method 
of a uhd_usrp_source or uhs_usrp_sink passed to the block with a 
pointer. Both the source and sink contain the set_current_freq method, 
so from an identity standpoint it really doesn't matter which one is 
passed to the block. The issue is that I have to set a type for the 
object to be passed in the function call. I was wondering if there is a 
parent class which encompasses both the source and sink types that I 
could use for passing the pointer? If it is not possible to do this I 
could always pass the pointers to the block as distinctly for a source 
or sink, but for the sake of generic code I thought it would be better 
not to limit the block to one or the other. I'm thinking about making it 
so that the user can pass an array or vector of pointers to the block 
and the block would then call this method for all pointers passed. This 
would allow use with multiple devices as well. Any thoughts on how this 
could be done? I thought that perhaps a template would work but I have 
not had any success with this method so far. I don't think that a 
template will let me call an method defined in a strongly typed class.

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Daniel Labarowski