Graph edition - friend class or public methods?
Hello everyone.
I'm writing a program basing on a graph structure. I need to create a module that can load a graph from a text file and edit the created graph - delete/modify edges, verticles and their fields. So the graph has to be mutable and cannot be created just with constructors due to possible cyclic references.
Now my question is: what is the best way to realise the editor? Should I create a class 'Editor' who will be a friend to all the graph elements or implement public methods in all graph element classes to modify each field?
Or is there another, better solution?
I'm writing a program basing on a graph structure. I need to create a module that can load a graph from a text file and edit the created graph - delete/modify edges, verticles and their fields. So the graph has to be mutable and cannot be created just with constructors due to possible cyclic references.
Now my question is: what is the best way to realise the editor? Should I create a class 'Editor' who will be a friend to all the graph elements or implement public methods in all graph element classes to modify each field?
Or is there another, better solution?
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