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Updated toString docs with StringMaker
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# String conversions
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Catch needs to be able to convert types you use in assertions and logging expressions into strings (for logging and reporting purposes).
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Most built-in or std types are supported out of the box but there are two ways that you can tell Catch how to convert your own types (or other, third-party types) into strings.
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Most built-in or std types are supported out of the box but there are three ways that you can tell Catch how to convert your own types (or other, third-party types) into strings.
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## operator << overload for std::ostream
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Again ```T``` is your type and ```convertMyTypeToString``` is where you'll write whatever code is necessary to make your type printable. Note that the function must be in the Catch namespace, which itself must be in the global namespace.
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## Catch::StringMaker<T> specialisation
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There are some cases where overloading toString does not work as expected. Specialising StringMaker<T> gives you more precise, and reliable, control - but at the cost of slightly more code and complexity:
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```
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namespace Catch {
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template<> struct StringMaker<T> {
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static std::string convert( T const& value ) {
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return convertMyTypeToString( value );
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}
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};
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}
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```
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