Thank you very much, Nathan!
I just applied your patch to the recent trunk version (r5416) that I
checked out and updated our Project's lib - and with some other
changes, we run on Mono (2.0.1) again with Castle MicroKernel! Very
glad about this! :)
Best greetings,
Stefan
On Nov 15, 4:18 am, Nathan O'Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Browsing through the archives there was a thread on this a while back
> but it seems the problem was not solved.
>
> Somewhere between RC3 and HEAD the MicroKernel stopped working properly
> on Mono 1.9+. HEAD still works on the older 1.2.x releases of Mono.
>
> I've attached a sample program which demonstrates the problem. After
> poking through the mono source it can be seen that for some reason,
> Mono 1.9+ has implemented the
> System.ComponentModel.TypeDescriptor.CanConvertFrom() to claim that it
> can convert a string to interface (even though the implementation is
> incapable of doing so)
>
> This breaks the MicroKernel's method
> ComponentModelConverter.CanHandleType(Type). The end result of this is
> that on Mono 1.9+ the MicroKernel treats any dependencies on an
> interface as a "DependencyByKey" instead of "DependencyByService".
>
> public override bool CanHandleType(Type type)
> {
> TypeConverter converter =
> TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(type);
> return (converter != null &&
> converter.CanConvertFrom(typeof(String)));
> }
>
> I do not have the understanding of when this should succeed; hopefully
> it should never succeed when type.IsInterface ? I've attached a tiny
> patch to that effect, but perhaps there are some circumstances when
> interfaces can be converted from strings that I dont know of.
>
> I've also attached a basic test program; on Mono 1.9+ and Castle HEAD
> without this patch this program will throw an exception. The program
> works with Castle HEAD as-is on Windows or Mono 1.2.x
>
> Regards
> Nathan
>
> ComponentModelConverter.cs.patch
> < 1KViewDownload
>
> Test.build
> < 1KViewDownload
>
> Test.cs
> < 1KViewDownload
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