From 7b461d62b8669b4f564afeac4f68b7c8f7780220 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Gallego-Ortiz <nicolas.gallego@inf.unibe.ch>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 17:35:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] data member added to handle type name as a string

---
 src/OpenMesh/Core/Utils/BaseProperty.hh | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/OpenMesh/Core/Utils/BaseProperty.hh b/src/OpenMesh/Core/Utils/BaseProperty.hh
index 9991b3ba..1e63d6d3 100644
--- a/src/OpenMesh/Core/Utils/BaseProperty.hh
+++ b/src/OpenMesh/Core/Utils/BaseProperty.hh
@@ -80,13 +80,13 @@ public:
   ///
   /// \param _name Optional textual name for the property.
   ///
-  BaseProperty(const std::string& _name = "<unknown>")
-  : name_(_name), persistent_(false)
+  BaseProperty(const std::string& _name = "<unknown>", const std::string& _internal_type_name = "<unknown>" )
+  : name_(_name), internal_type_name_(_internal_type_name), persistent_(false)
   {}
 
   /// \brief Copy constructor
   BaseProperty(const BaseProperty & _rhs)
-      : name_( _rhs.name_ ), persistent_( _rhs.persistent_ ) {}
+      : name_( _rhs.name_ ), internal_type_name_(_rhs.internal_type_name_), persistent_( _rhs.persistent_ ) {}
 
   /// Destructor.
   virtual ~BaseProperty() {}
@@ -119,6 +119,9 @@ public: // named property interface
   /// Return the name of the property
   const std::string& name() const { return name_; }
 
+  /// Return internal type name of the property for type safe casting alternative to runtime information
+  const std::string& internal_type_name() const { return internal_type_name_; }
+
   virtual void stats(std::ostream& _ostr) const;
 
 public: // I/O support
@@ -173,6 +176,7 @@ protected:
 private:
 
   std::string name_;
+  std::string internal_type_name_;
   bool        persistent_;
 };