Class lsst::afw::table::detail::SchemaImpl

class SchemaImpl

A private implementation class to hide the messy details of Schema.

This can’t be a real pimpl class, because some of the most important functionality is in the forEach function, a templated function we can’t explicitly instantiate in a source file. But putting all the details here draws a clear line between what users should look at (Schema) and what they shouldn’t (this).

Because Schema holds SchemaImpl by shared pointer, one SchemaImpl can be shared between multiple Schemas (and SubSchemas), which implement copy-on-write by creating a new SchemaImpl if the pointer they have isn’t unique when they are modified.