Changed interfaces to abstract classes where possible in {lib,samples,pkg}

pkg/unittest/interfaces.dart

 // Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
 // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 // To decouple the reporting of errors, and allow for extensibility of
 // matchers, we make use of some interfaces.
 
 /**
  * The ErrorFormatter type is used for functions that
  * can be used to build up error reports upon [expect] failures.
  * There is one built-in implementation ([defaultErrorFormatter])
  * which is used by the default failure handler. If the failure handler
  * is replaced it may be desirable to replace the [stringDescription]
  * error formatter with another.
  */
 typedef String ErrorFormatter(actual, Matcher matcher, String reason,
     MatchState matchState, bool verbose);
 
 /**
  * Matchers build up their error messages by appending to
  * Description objects. This interface is implemented by
  * StringDescription. This interface is unlikely to need
  * other implementations, but could be useful to replace in
  * some cases - e.g. language conversion.
  */
-interface Description {
+abstract class Description {
   /** Change the value of the description. */
   Description replace(String text);
 
   /** This is used to add arbitrary text to the description. */
   Description add(String text);
 
   /** This is used to add a meaningful description of a value. */
   Description addDescriptionOf(value);
 
   /**
    * This is used to add a description of an [Iterable] [list],
    * with appropriate [start] and [end] markers and inter-element [separator].
    */
   Description addAll(String start, String separator, String end,
                        Iterable list);
 }
 
 /**
  * [expect] Matchers must implement the Matcher interface.

[ngeoffray, 2012/09/12 10:41:47]

Matcher interface -> Matcher class.

[bakster, 2012/09/12 10:45:49]

Done.

  * The base Matcher class that implements this interface has
  * a generic implementation of [describeMismatch] so this does
  * not need to be provided unless a more clear description is
  * required. The other two methods ([matches] and [describe])
  * must always be provided as they are highly matcher-specific.
  */
-interface Matcher {
+abstract class Matcher {
   /**
    * This does the matching of the actual vs expected values.
    * [item] is the actual value. [matchState] can be supplied
    * and may be used to add details about the mismatch that are too
    * costly to determine in [describeMismatch].
    */
   bool matches(item, MatchState matchState);
 
   /** This builds a textual description of the matcher. */
   Description describe(Description description);
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   Description describeMismatch(item, Description mismatchDescription,
       MatchState matchState, bool verbose);
 }
 
 /**
  * Failed matches are reported using a default IFailureHandler.
  * The default implementation simply throws ExpectExceptions;
  * this can be replaced by some other implementation of
  * IFailureHandler by calling configureExpectHandler.
  */
-interface FailureHandler {
+abstract class FailureHandler {
   /** This handles failures given a textual decription */
   void fail(String reason);
 
   /**
    * This handles failures given the actual [value], the [matcher]
    * the [reason] (argument from [expect]), some additonal [matchState]
    * generated by the [matcher], and a verbose flag which controls in
    * some cases how much [matchState] information is used. It will use
    * these to create a detailed error message (typically by calling
    * an [ErrorFormatter]) and then call [fail] with this message.
    */
   void failMatch(actual, Matcher matcher, String reason,
                  MatchState matchState, bool verbose);
 }