PAYLOAD Layer

Processing of the PAYLOAD is always the last stage in the protocol stack. All previous layers have successfully processed their transport data, the message object was created and is ready to read its fields encoded in the PAYLOAD.

Such layer must receive type of the message interface class as a template parameter and redefine read/write iterator types.

namespace comms
{
template <typename TMessage>
class MsgDataLayer
{
public:
    // Define type of the message interface
    using Message = TMessage;

    // Type of the pointer to message is not defined yet, will be defined in
    // the layer that processes message ID
    using MsgPtr = void;

    // ReadIterator is the same as Message::ReadIterator if such exists, void 
    // otherwise.
    using ReadIterator = typename std::conditional<
            Message::InterfaceOptions::HasReadIterator,
            typename TMessage::ReadIterator,
            void
        >::type;

    // WriteIterator is the same as Message::WriteIterator if such exists, void 
    // otherwise.
    using WriteIterator = typename std::conditional<
            Message::InterfaceOptions::HasWriteIterator,
            typename TMessage::WriteIterator,
            void
        >::type WriteIterator;
    ...
};
} // namespace comms

The read/write operations just forward the request the message object.

namespace comms
{
template <typename TMessage>
class MsgDataLayer
{
public:

    template <typename TMsgPtr>
    static ErrorStatus read(
        TMsgPtr& msgPtr,
        ReadIterator& iter,
        std::size_t len)
    {
        return msgPtr->read(iter, len);
    }

    static ErrorStatus write(
        const Message& msg,
        WriteIterator& iter,
        std::size_t len)
    {
        return msg.write(iter, len);
    }
};
} // namespace comms

Please note that read() member function expects to receive a reference to the smart pointer, which holds allocated message object, as the first parameter. The type of the pointer is not known yet. As the result, type of such pointer is provided via template parameter.