id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
12372	property_tree::get_optional without the template parameter	harris.pc@…	Sebastian Redl	"Is it possible to call

tree.get_optional<Data>(path)
without the <Data> ?
Note that Data is the type of the tree's Data.

Would also be nice to be able to get the data as a pointer so that data can be updated in-place instead of get/push.

Like this, implemented as a free function (for the non-const variant):

Data * get_dataptr_optional( Tree & tree, string const& path )
{
   if (optional<Tree &> node = tree.get_child_optional(path))
      return &node->data();
   return NULL;
}

cheers,
Paul
"	Feature Requests	new	To Be Determined	property_tree	Boost 1.61.0	Optimization