Added clean handling of vector<bool> argument values

benchmark/argument_vector_bool.cc

+/****************************************************************************
+**  LinkTest                                                               **
+*****************************************************************************
+**  Copyright (c) 2008-2022                                                **
+**  Forschungszentrum Juelich, Juelich Supercomputing Centre               **
+**                                                                         **
+**  See the file COPYRIGHT in the package base directory for details       **
+****************************************************************************/
+#include "argument_vector_bool.h"
+#include <sstream>
+#include <ios>
+#include<algorithm>
+
+std::vector<bool> Argument_Vector_Bool::getValue() const {
+    std::vector<bool> res;
+    copy(_value.begin(), _value.end(), back_inserter(res)); 
+    return res;
+}
+
+std::string Argument_Vector_Bool::getString() const {
+    std::stringstream ss;
+    ss << "[";
+    ss << std::boolalpha;
+    for(bool b: _value) {
+        ss << b << ",";
+    }
+    ss << "]";
+    return ss.str();
+}
+
+Argument_Vector_Bool::Argument_Vector_Bool (const std::string str){
+    if(str.front() != '[' || str.back() != ']') {
+        throw std::invalid_argument(str + " needs to be a list such as [] and [1,0,1,1]");
+    }
+    std::stringstream values(str.substr(1, str.size() -1));
+    std::string value;
+    while(std::getline(values, value, ','))
+    {
+        std::stringstream boolStr;
+        bool b;
+        boolStr << value;
+        boolStr >> b;
+        _value.push_back(b);
+    }
+}
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benchmark/argument_vector_bool.h

+/****************************************************************************
+**  LinkTest                                                               **
+*****************************************************************************
+**  Copyright (c) 2008-2022                                                **
+**  Forschungszentrum Juelich, Juelich Supercomputing Centre               **
+**                                                                         **
+**  See the file COPYRIGHT in the package base directory for details       **
+****************************************************************************/
+#ifndef LINKTEST_ARGUMENT_VECTOR_BOOL
+#define LINKTEST_ARGUMENT_VECTOR_BOOL
+
+#include <vector>
+#include <string>
+
+class Argument_Vector_Bool {
+public:
+    std::vector<bool> getValue() const;
+    std::string getString() const;
+    
+    Argument_Vector_Bool (const std::string str);
+
+private:
+    std::vector<bool> _value;
+};
+
+#endif
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