Can't cast to character from other actor

[Quansword]

I’m trying to convert a weapon system I prototyped in blueprint to C++, but I’m running across a snag when trying to cast my weapon class’s owner to my player character.

I can’t just reference the character in the weapon header because that creates a circular dependency, but as is, the weapon actor doesn’t know that the character exists.

In the blueprint however, you can see that the cast works fine, and that the character and the weapon class both reference each other.

I’m stumped right now, and any help would be appreciated. Is there a workaround I can use here? Or just some way to get this working as is?

Thanks

[AmphDev]

Hey!
First to avoid circular depedency use forward declaration!

That means put in BaseWeapon.h after includes one line with class AWeaponSystem_CodeCharacter;
After that you can put YOUR character class.h to BaseWeapon.cpp

Do same with BaseWeapon in your character class and all of your circular depedency will fly away

[Quansword]

Wow, that worked pretty quickly. I never knew about forward declaration before, but that is really helpful.

In case anyone wants to see what I did, here’s the top of my .h file and .cpp file:

.h file:

#include "stuff.h"

// Forward declaration of Character class

class ACodeCharacter;

UCLASS()
class WEAPONSYSTEM_CODE_API ABaseWeapon : public AActor
{
	GENERATED_BODY()

	ACodeCharacter* OwningChar;
	
public:	
	// Sets default values for this actor's properties
	ABaseWeapon();

//...

.cpp file:

#include "BaseWeapon.h"
#include "CodeCharacter.h"

// My other functions...

void ABaseWeapon::AttachWeaponToCharacter(FName SocketName)
{
	OwningChar = Cast<ACodeCharacter>(GetOwner());
}