Diamond inheritance with templated base class: Base<Derived>

Question

I have diamond problem when inheriting from templated base class which takes Derived class as template argument.

Normaly this problem is solvable with virtual inheritance like this:

class Base0
{
protected:
    int var = 0;
};

class Base1 : public virtual Base0
{
};

class Base2 : public virtual Base0
{

};

class Derived :
    public Base1,
    public Base2
{
public:
    void f()
    {
        var = 1; // OK single var
    }
};

However I have this scenario:

template<typename DERIVED_CLASS>
class TemplatedBase0
{
protected:
    int var = 0;
};

class Base1 : public virtual TemplatedBase0<Base1>
{
};

class Base2 : public virtual TemplatedBase0<Base2>
{

};

class Derived :
    public Base1,
    public Base2
{
public:
    void f()
    {
        var = 1; // ERROR: var is ambigous
    }
};

I understand that in above case templated base class is not the same, ie. there are 2 completely unrealted base classes involved and it looks like virtual inheritance dosnt work.

So my question is, is there any way to make this work? what design/approach should I take here?

I need to have base class as a template which takes derived class type. but how to make diamond inheritance possible?

Answer 1

There is no diamond in your code. Your Derived has two different var s. Depending on which you want you write:

Base1::var = 1;
Base2::var = 1;

but how to make diamond inheritance possible?

It is not clear why you want a diamond. If your aim is to have only a single var in Derived you need a different design.

Answer 2

If want to only have a single int var; in Derived , you need to move it to a non-template base class:

class GenericTemplatedBase0
{
  protected:
    int var = 0;
};

template<typename DERIVED_CLASS>
class TemplatedBase0 : virtual public GenericTemplatedBase0
{
    // ...
};

class Base1 : public TemplatedBase0<Base1>
{
};

class Base2 : public TemplatedBase0<Base2>
{
};

class Derived : public Base1, public Base2
{
  public:
    void f()
    {
        var = 1;
    }
};