Shared pointer to void* and vica-versa

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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Hi.

I’m trying to cast a FUniqueNetIdPtr (or FUniqueNetId&) to void* and later on, in a callback, cast it back to original type, to use it. How could I possibly do this? It won’t accept reinterpret_cast, or (void*), nor StaticCast.

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If you are sure that the object being sent outlives callback then you can send the address of variable.
For example:

struct FSomething
{
  FUniqueNetIdPtr NetIdPtr;
  void DoWork()
  {
    FString SomeData = PrepareData();
    Callback(SomeData, &NetIdPtr);
  }
};

void Callback(FString const& InData, void* InPtr)
{
  auto NetPtr = static_cast<FNetUniqueIdPtr*>(InPtr);
  if (NetPtr->GetSize() == InData.Num()) {
    //...
  }
}