Remove templates from IValidator interface.

[Martyn Gigg]

Templating the class makes it very difficult to use without know the type of the property it is attached to. We can alleviate this by making the checkValidity method use a boost::any instance. The isValid method can be left templated so that the interface is not polluted with boost::any.

This will make writing Python algorithms much simpler as a single validator type can be used.

Comments from Russell

We love changes that modify huge number of files :)
Option 2 seems to have more merit to me. Would be good to keep boost::any pretty well encapsulated though.

While we're at it I think we should do a couple of other things:
 - lose the bare pointers and the need for the clone() method.
 - only include concrete validators in algorithms that actually need them (i.e. take them out of Algorithm.h and the like)

As an aside, when in the distant past I tried to allow const workspace properties (e.g. WorkspaceProperty<const MatrixWorkspace>) my recollection is that it was the validators that prevented that (or made it too hard for me at the time). This might help with that.

Russell

[Martyn Gigg]

Refs #4949. Remove TYPE from IValidator interface.

Touches nearly everything unfortunately but is necessary.

Changeset: c20c02a8c1ae21c0cfa7a8ca1828e1635c22930f

[Martyn Gigg]

Refs #4949. Fix the build.

MSVC can't deduce type from make_shared if it is assigned to a superclass_sptr

Changeset: 46b57d605e799c6d86c39d9b2369a66cb5ee5bee

[Martyn Gigg]

Refs #4949. MSVC fixes for make_shared

Changeset: 945d2cb4ffeeff6b0dff19c6872ea0027df43ad9

[Martyn Gigg]

Refs #4949. Fix Python enum exports.

Changeset: a9c659a9fe0d17dae06fa626c487a9e4488e8560

[Martyn Gigg]

Refs #4949. Catch another use of cend which the Mac doesn't have

Changeset: c0833defb73353fa437ea52e32921a7a1c7bc8c4

[Martyn Gigg]

Refs #4949. Other default value make_shared references.

Changeset: 0ce3342929c40f92034875817303bd038660e7b3

[Martyn Gigg]

I couldn't get rid of the clone method unfortunately as I need it in Python. WIKI page at http://www.mantidproject.org/Writing_A_Validator

[Owen Arnold]

Generics removed. Everything else seems to be working.

[Stuart Campbell]

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​5795