How to ensure that every method of a class calls some other method first?

This a minimal (but pretty general) solution to the wrapper problem:

#include <iostream>
#include <memory>

template<typename T, typename C>
class CallProxy {
    T* p;
    C c{};
public:
    CallProxy(T* p) : p{p} {}
    T* operator->() { return p; } 
};

template<typename T, typename C>
class Wrapper {
    std::unique_ptr<T> p;
public:
    template<typename... Args>
    Wrapper(Args&&... args) : p{std::make_unique<T>(std::forward<Args>(args)...)} {}
    CallProxy<T, C> operator->() { return CallProxy<T, C>{p.get()}; } 
};

struct PrefixSuffix {
    PrefixSuffix() { std::cout << "prefix\n"; }
    ~PrefixSuffix() { std::cout << "suffix\n"; }
};

struct MyClass {
    void foo() { std::cout << "foo\n"; }
};


int main()
{
    Wrapper<MyClass, PrefixSuffix> w;
    w->foo();
}

Defining a PrefixSuffix class, with the prefix code inside its constructor and the suffix code inside the destructor is the way to go. Then, you can use the Wrapper class (using the -> to access to your original class' member functions) and prefix and suffix code will be executed for every call.

See it live.

Credits to this paper, where I found the solution.

You may do a wrapper, something like

class Foo {
public:
    void a() { /*...*/ }
    void b() { /*...*/ }
};

class LogFoo
{
public:
    template <typename ... Ts>
    LogFoo(Ts&&... args) : foo(std::forward<Ts>(args)...) {}

    const Foo* operator ->() const { log(); return &foo;}
    Foo* operator ->() { log(); return &foo;}
private:
    void log() const {/*...*/}
private:
    Foo foo;
};

And then use -> instead of .:

LogFoo foo{/* args...*/};

foo->a();
foo->b();

I agree on what is written on the comments of your original posts, but if you really need to do this and you don't like to use a C macro,you can add a method to call your methods.

Here is a complete example using C++ 2011 to handle correctly varying function parameters. Tested with GCC and clang

#include <iostream>

class Foo
{
        void log() {}
    public:
        template <typename R, typename... TArgs>        
        R call(R (Foo::*f)(TArgs...), const TArgs... args) {
            this->log();
            return (this->*f)(args...);
        }

        void a() { std::cerr << "A!\n"; }
        void b(int i) { std::cerr << "B:" << i << "\n"; }
        int c(const char *c, int i ) { std::cerr << "C:" << c << '/' << i << "\n"; return 0; }
};

int main() {
    Foo c;

    c.call(&Foo::a);
    c.call(&Foo::b, 1);
    return c.call(&Foo::c, "Hello", 2);
}

Use a lambda expression and a higher-order function to avoid repetition and minimize the chance of forgetting to call log:

class Foo
{
private:
    void log(const std::string&)
    {

    }

    template <typename TF, typename... TArgs>
    void log_and_do(TF&& f, TArgs&&... xs)
    {
        log(std::forward<TArgs>(xs)...);
        std::forward<TF>(f)();
    }

public:
    void a()
    {
        log_and_do([this]
        {
            // `a` implementation...
        }, "Foo::a");
    }

    void b()
    {
        log_and_do([this]
        {
            // `b` implementation...
        }, "Foo::b");
    }
};

The benefit of this approach is that you can change log_and_do instead of changing every function calling log if you decide to alter the logging behavior. You can also pass any number of extra arguments to log. Finally, it should be optimized by the compiler - it will behave as if you had written a call to log manually in every method.

You can use a macro (sigh) to avoid some boilerplate:

#define LOG_METHOD(...) \
    __VA_ARGS__ \
    { \
        log_and_do([&]

#define LOG_METHOD_END(...) \
        , __VA_ARGS__); \
    }

Usage:

class Foo
{
private:
    void log(const std::string&)
    {

    }

    template <typename TF, typename... TArgs>
    void log_and_do(TF&& f, TArgs&&... xs)
    {
        log(std::forward<TArgs>(xs)...);
        std::forward<TF>(f)();
    }

public:
    LOG_METHOD(void a())
    {
        // `a` implementation...
    }
    LOG_METHOD_END("Foo::a");

    LOG_METHOD(void b())
    {
        // `b` implementation...
    }
    LOG_METHOD_END("Foo::b");
};