How to use smart pointers to store an

Question

I have two classes. One class(Person) has a vector collection composed of pointers of the other class(Student). At run time, the Person class will call a method which will store a pointer to a Student class in the vector. I have been trying to do this with smart pointers to avoid Memory leak issues that can arise but I am struggling to do so. How would I go about it?

My goal is for the Person class to have handles to objects that exist somewhere else in the code

Class Student
{
  public:
    string studentName
    Student(string name){
      studentName = name;
    }
}

Class Person
{
  public:
    vector <Student*> collection;
    getStudent()
   {
    cout << "input student name";
    collection.push_back(new Student(name));
   }
}

Answer 1

You don't need to use smart pointers here. Place the objects directly into the vector and their lifetime is managed by the vector:

std::vector<Student> collection;

collection.emplace_back(name);