Can anyone tell me if its possible to redeclare a C# class in IronPython? If I have a C# class, would I be able to monkey-patch it from IronPython?
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Why would you redeclare it? Wouldn't it make more sense to subclass it or just make a totally new class?
EDIT: Give your clarification, I think what you actually need is a proper inversion of control (IOC) framework, such as Castle Windsor. Basically, you have a database interface, then configure the IOC framework to inject a real database for production, and mock database for testing.
Matthew Flaschen
2009-06-17 18:20:26
I want to redeclare the constructor because the class tries to access the database in the constructor and that makes it difficult to unit test. By redeclaring the constructor I can point the class to a mock database and unit test it without hitting the actual database. Thanks for responding.
Wesley Wiser
2009-06-18 17:14:56
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You can monkey-patch from IronPython, but IPy is the only environment that will respect your changes; i.e. if you tried to mock out File.Create from IronPython, this would work fine for any IPy code, but if you called a C# method which called File.Create, it would get the real one, not the mock.
Paul Betts
2009-06-24 18:39:09
How do you do this? When I try it on my own classes I get this message:AttributeError: attribute 'methodName' of 'className' object is read-only
Wesley Wiser
2009-06-26 19:43:31
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You cannot monkey patch from IronPython. IronPython treats all .NET classes just like CPython treats built-in types: they cannot be monkey patched. IronRuby on the other hand does support this.
Dino Viehland
2010-07-01 04:49:44