From 918dc150f48b4d19cfbf42b5f984b0dedaf7c1da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: csoler <retroshare.project@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 13:26:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] added explicit converter between ID types of same size

git-svn-id: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/retroshare/code/branches/v0.6-IdCleaning@7170 b45a01b8-16f6-495d-af2f-9b41ad6348cc
---
 libretroshare/src/retroshare/rsids.h | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/libretroshare/src/retroshare/rsids.h b/libretroshare/src/retroshare/rsids.h
index ff21cbb64..6063ca934 100644
--- a/libretroshare/src/retroshare/rsids.h
+++ b/libretroshare/src/retroshare/rsids.h
@@ -53,6 +53,18 @@ template<uint32_t ID_SIZE_IN_BYTES,bool UPPER_CASE,uint32_t UNIQUE_IDENTIFIER> c
 		//
 		explicit t_RsGenericIdType(const unsigned char bytes[]) ;
 
+		// Explicit constructor from a different type, checking that the sizes are compatible.
+		// This is used for conversions such as 
+		//
+		// 		GroupId -> CircleId
+		// 		GroupId -> GxsId
+		//
+		template<bool UPPER_CASE2,uint32_t UNIQUE_IDENTIFIER2>
+		explicit t_RsGenericIdType(const t_RsGenericIdType<ID_SIZE_IN_BYTES,UPPER_CASE2,UNIQUE_IDENTIFIER2>& id)
+		{
+			memcpy(bytes,id.toByteArray(),ID_SIZE_IN_BYTES) ;
+		}
+
 		// Random initialization. Can be useful for testing.
 		//
 		static t_RsGenericIdType<ID_SIZE_IN_BYTES,UPPER_CASE,UNIQUE_IDENTIFIER> random()