C++ - typeid(), used on derived class doesn't return correct type

Question

Maybe I\'m misunderstanding how inheritance works here, but here\'s my problem:

I have a class Option, and a class RoomOption that derives from it. I have another cl

Answer 1

The type of object a shared_ptr points to is part of its value, not its type. So this line of code is broken:

cout<getRoom()->getOption(0)).name()<

You want this:

cout<getRoom()->getOption(0).get()).name()<

Or perhaps:

cout<getRoom()->getOption(0))).name()<

What typeid does is tell you the actual type of the thing you passed to it. You passed it a shared_ptr. It doesn't look inside the object to see what it contains.