From 22226951be6337fc4fdfdeee0324f8f934b83aae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dominik Charousset <dominik.charousset@haw-hamburg.de>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 23:58:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] added send_as and send_tuple_as functions

these functions provide a simple interface to "fake"
the sender information of a message
---
 cppa/cppa.hpp | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cppa/cppa.hpp b/cppa/cppa.hpp
index c6f74dfee4..c060bcebf0 100644
--- a/cppa/cppa.hpp
+++ b/cppa/cppa.hpp
@@ -454,6 +454,34 @@ send(const intrusive_ptr<C>& whom, Args&&... what) {
     detail::send_tpl_impl(whom.get(), std::forward<Args>(what)...);
 }
 
+/**
+ * @brief Sends @p what as a message to @p whom, but sets
+ *        the sender information to @p from.
+ * @param from Sender as seen by @p whom.
+ * @param whom Receiver of the message.
+ * @param what Message elements.
+ * @pre <tt>sizeof...(Args) > 0</tt>
+ */
+template<class C, typename... Args>
+inline typename std::enable_if<std::is_base_of<channel, C>::value>::type
+send_tuple_as(const actor_ptr& from, const intrusive_ptr<C>& whom, any_tuple what) {
+    if (whom) whom->enqueue(from.get(), std::move(what));
+}
+
+/**
+ * @brief Sends <tt>{what...}</tt> as a message to @p whom, but sets
+ *        the sender information to @p from.
+ * @param from Sender as seen by @p whom.
+ * @param whom Receiver of the message.
+ * @param what Message elements.
+ * @pre <tt>sizeof...(Args) > 0</tt>
+ */
+template<class C, typename... Args>
+inline typename std::enable_if<std::is_base_of<channel, C>::value>::type
+send_as(const actor_ptr& from, const intrusive_ptr<C>& whom, Args&&... what) {
+    send_tuple_as(from, whom, make_any_tuple(std::forward<Args>(what)...));
+}
+
 /**
  * @brief Sends a message to @p whom.
  *