Replace SubclassFactory with a RegisterFactory #1072
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Description of work
SubclassFactorywith a classicRegisterFactoryto avoid metaclass magic, allow effective ABCs and explicit inclusion (i.e. not includingConverteras anIJoband thus making a non-instantiable object a key) and naming (including multiple names for the same thing).UCDictclass for case-insensitive dictionary keys.DummyIJobchild to account forABCworking properly.PR is broken down since it is a large number of files touched (though small changes):
SubclassFactoryNB. Converters are registered in both IJob and Converter as was historical.
Fixes
Part of the motivation for this is to support a factory-like mechanism for GUI Widgets from Descriptor types.
To test
Standard tests should run.