[jira] Commented: (JMOCK-201) Allow ClassImposteriser to be extended

> Allow ClassImposteriser to be extended
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>                 Key: JMOCK-201
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JMOCK-201
>             Project: jMock
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Library
>    Affects Versions: 2.5.1
>            Reporter: Corporate Gadfly
>         Attachments: JMOCK-201.patch
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> I had a need to imposterise concrete classes (from 3rd-party jars) with final toString() method.
> For background, please see discussion at:
> http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-mocking-concrete-classes-with-final-toString-method-p18509146.html
> In that thread, Nat had advised one of the options as being "write your own Imposteriser".
> So, for my needs I ended up writing ClassImposteriserAllowingFinalToString. It would be great if ClassImposteriser could be made easier to extend. As it is, it has a lot of private methods and properties and I pretty much had to rewrite my own imposteriser from scratch (essentially duplicating the private pieces of ClassImposteriser). If ClassImposteriser was extension friendly, I would probably need to do minimal work by writing my own imposterise() and canImposterise() methods. This way I would also be safeguarded against future bug-fixes that may happen in ClassImposteriser.
> Cheers and thanks in advance.