Encapsulated (Private) Data Fields

• unsigned _size: stores the size of the IntVector (the number of elements currently being used to store the user's values).
• unsigned _capacity: store the size of the array (therefore must always be >= to _size).
• int *_data: a pointer that stores the address of the dynamically-allocated array of integers

Public Interface (Public Member Functions)

• IntVector(unsigned capacity = 0, int value = 0)
• ~IntVector()
• unsigned size() const
• unsigned capacity() const
• bool empty() const
• const int & at(unsigned index) const
• int & at(unsigned index)
• void insert(unsigned index, int value)
• void erase(unsigned index)
• const int & front() const
• int & front()
• const int & back() const
• int & back()
• void assign(unsigned n, int value)
• void push_back(int value)
• void pop_back()
• void clear()
• void resize(unsigned size, int value = 0)
• void reserve(unsigned n)

You may NOT add any functions to the public interface nor any member variables at all, public or private.

Private Helper Functions

• void expand()
• void expand(unsigned amount)

The above functions should work almost exactly like the STL vector class member function with the same name, except for 2 slight differences.

1. The messages will be slightly different in the outofrange exceptions thrown by at, insert, and erase functions.
2. The insert and erase functions will pass in an unsigned index rather than an iterator.

Please see the following pages to get a better idea of what each function should do: STL Vector

Constructors and Accessors

IntVector(unsigned capacity = 0, int value = 0)

• Sets both the size and capacity of the IntVector to the value of the parameter passed in and dynamically allocates an array of that size as well. However, if the capacity is 0, then there is no array. Make sure you do not leave a dangling pointer. This function should initialize all elements (if any) of the array to the value of the 2nd parameter.

unsigned size() const

• This function returns the current size (not the capacity) of the IntVector object, which is the values stored in the _size data field.

unsigned capacity() const

• This function returns the current capacity (not the size) of the IntVector object, which is the value stored in the _capacity data field.

bool empty() const

• Returns whether the IntVector is empty (the _size field is 0).

const int & at(unsigned index) const

• This function will return the value stored in the element at the passed in index position.

• This function should throw an out_of_range exception, passing it the string "IntVector::at_range_check" if the index is beyond the size of the IntVector. See bottom of specifications for more details on how to throw an exception and how to test that it works properly.

const int & front() const

• This function will return the value stored in the first element of the IntVector. This function does not check the size of the IntVector or the array. If the IntVector is empty then calling this function causes undefined behavior.

const int & back() const

• This function will return the value stored in the last element of the IntVector. This function does not check the size of the IntVector or the array. If the IntVector is empty then calling this function causes undefined behavior.

Destructor, Mutators, & Private Helper Functions

~IntVector()

• The destructor is used to clean up (delete) any remaining dynamically-allocated memory. For this class, that will be the array pointed to by the int pointer named _data.

void expand()

• This function will double the capacity of the vector. This function should reallocate memory for the dynamically allocated array and update the value of capacity. Make sure your expand() function properly handles the case when capacity is 0. This will be a special case within the expand() function. Since doubling 0 still gives you 0, you should set capacity to 1 in this special case.

• Make sure you don't create a memory leak here.

void expand(unsigned amount)

• This function will expand the capacity of the vector by the amount passed in. This function should reallocate memory for the dynamically allocated array and update the value of capacity.

• Make sure you don't create a memory leak here.

void insert(unsigned index, int value)

• This function inserts data at position index. To do this, all values currently at position index and greater are shifted to the right by 1 (to the element right after its current position).

• Size will be increased by 1. However, If size will become larger than capacity, this function needs to first double the capacity. In other words, if capacity and size are both 20 when this function is called, this function must first increase the capacity to 40 and then it will be able to increase the size to 21.

• Since other functions will also potentially need to expand (double) the capacity, call the private helper function named expand (see above) to do this for you.

• This function should throw an out_of_range exception, passing it the string "IntVector::insert_range_check" if the index is too large. See bottom of specifications for more details on how to throw an exception and how to test that it works properly.

void erase(unsigned index)

• This function removes the value at position index and shifts all of the values at positions greater than index to the left by one (to the element right before its current position).

• Size is decreased by 1.

• This function should throw an out_of_range exception, passing it the string "IntVector::erase_range_check" if the index is too large. See bottom of specifications for more details on how to throw an exception and how to test that it works properly.

void push_back(int value)

• This function inserts a value at the back end of the array.

• Size will be increased by 1. However, If size will become larger than capacity, this function needs to first increase the capacity. In other words, if capacity and size are both 20 when this function is called, capacity must first be increased to 40 and then size can be increased to 21.

• Since other functions will also potentially need to expand (double) the capacity, call the private helper function named expand (see above) to do this for you.

void pop_back()

• This function just needs to decrease size by 1.

• This function will never throw an exception. Calling pop_back on an empty vector will cause undefined behavior.

void clear()

• This function reduces the size of the vector to 0.

void resize(unsigned size, int value = 0)

• This function resizes the vector to contain size elements.

• If size is smaller than the current size(_size), this function just reduces the value of _size to size.

• If size is greater than the current size(_size), then the appropriate number of elements are inserted at the end of the vector, giving all of the new elements the value passed in through the 2nd parameter (value).

• If the new value of size will be larger than capacity, then the capacity must first be expanded by either doubling (expand()) or by increasing the capacity by a specific amount (expand(new size - current capacity)), whichever results in the largest capacity. Then, this function can increase the size appropriately.

void reserve(unsigned n)

• This function requests that the capacity (the size of the dynamically allocated array) be set to n at minimum. This informs the vector of a planned increase in size.

• This function should NOT ever reduce the size of the vector. If n is larger than the current capacity then the capacity should be expanded to n.

• A call to this function never affects the elements contained in the vector, nor the vector's size.

void assign(unsigned n, int value)

• Assigns new content to the vector object, dropping all the elements contained in the vector before the call and replacing them by those specified by the parameters. The new value of size will be n and all values stored in the vector will have the value of the 2nd parameter.

• If the new value of size will be larger than capacity, then this function must first expand capacity by either double (expand()) or by increasing the capacity by a specific amount (expand(n - capacity)), whichever results in the largest capacity.

int & at(unsigned index)

• This function does exactly the same thing the accessor (const) version of at does.

int & front( )

• This function does exactly the same thing the accessor (const) version of front does.

int & back( )

• This function does exactly the same thing the accessor (const) version of back does.

Throwing an exception

You will need to include the standard library stdexcept. Then, when the index is out of range, execute the following statement:

throw out_of_range("IntVector::at_range_check"); 

To test if this worked, declare an IntVector of size 10 and then call the at function passing it an index argument of 10 or larger. You should see the following output:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::out_of_range' what(): IntVector::at_range_check Aborted

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