[Nmock-general] MockContainer, a bug fix and syncmail fix

[Owen R. <OR...@th...>]

skizz and i have just checked in a new class called MockContainer.
MockContainer springs from our observations about doing mock-driven
development with constructor dependency injection
(http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html).  the basic idea is
that you can use the MockContainer to instantiate your class-under-test and
it will go and create and plug in your mocks for you a la picocontainer
(http://picocontainer.org/).

managing multiple mocks for a single class-under-test and ensuring that
they are all verified can be a bit of pain.  it is very easy to forget to
verify a particular mock, and you have all of these mock members kicking
around in your test case.  enter MockContainer which manages all of this
for you by dynamically determining the dependencies expected by your
class-under-test.  MockContainer uses reflection to automatically generate
mocks for every constructor argument in the class-under-test.  you can then
ask the MockContainer for an instance of the class-under-test and it will
create it by passing in the requisite mocks.  calling Verify on the
MockContainer will ensure that Verify is called on each of the created
mocks.  try it out and let us know what you think.

i have also included a patch submitted by Jie Wang and Levi Khatskevitch.
they fixed a problem with SetupResult where it wasn't properly verifying
the return type of methods inherited from an interface
<snip from="Jie's email">
What happens is when an interface inherits from another parent interface,
the methods which belong to parent interface won't be returned through
Type.GetMethod method. We have to track its parent path to find the return
type.
</snip>

lastly, i have updated the loginfo in CVSROOT to use the centralised
version of syncmail.  the local copy in CVSROOT was blowing up due to some
security changes made by sourceforge.  commitinfo emails should now be
coming out on the nmock mailing list again.

cheers,
owen.

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