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POSafe way for getting/finding a vertex in a graph with custom properties -> good programming practice?
 

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    <p>I am writing a Graph-class using boost-graph-library. I use custom vertex and edge properties and a map to store/find the vertices/edges for a given property.<br> I'm satisfied with how it works, so far.<br> However, I have a small problem, where I'm not sure how to solve it "nicely". The class provides a method</p> <pre><code>Vertex getVertex(Vertexproperties v_prop) </code></pre> <p>and a method</p> <pre><code>bool hasVertex(Vertexproperties v_prop) </code></pre> <p>The question now is, would you judge this as good programming practice in C++?<br> My opinion is, that I have first to check if something is available before I can get it. So, before getting a vertex with a desired property, one has to check if hasVertex() would return true for those properties.<br> However, I would like to make getVertex() a bit more robust. ATM it will segfault when one would directly call getVertex() without prior checking if the graph has a corresponding vertex. A first idea was to return a NULL-pointer or a pointer that points <em>past</em> the last stored vertex. For the latter, I haven't found out how to do this.<br> But even with this "robust" version, one would have to check for correctness after getting a vertex or one would also run into a SegFault when dereferencing that vertex-pointer for example. Therefore I am wondering if it is "ok" to let getVertex() SegFault if one does not check for availability beforehand?</p>
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