modernization of Property

This is a major rewrite of the system of Property classes. Started as the implementation of GAUDI-1214, it continued as a review of IProperty and PropertyMgr, to end up in a complete rewrite (and optimization) of PropertyWithValue.

• Fixes GAUDI-1214
  • added missing declareProperty signature
  • added PropertyHolder (an updated PropertyMgr)
  • adapted all properties in Gaudi
• improved use of PropertyHolder
  • use inheritance instead of composition
  • removed ~200 (duplicated) lines of code in GaudiKernel
• optimization of Property (fixes GAUDI-1229)
  • use templates and automatic code generation to handle efficiently both value and reference properties
    • avoid creation of values on the heap (see GAUDI-1229)
    • removed the owned boolean flag
    • improved usability of properties (e.g. begin/end wrappers for C++11 loops, increment/decrement operators...)
    • deprecated use of C arrays as properties
  • merged features of PropertyWithVerifier, SimpleProperty and SimplePropertyRef into PropertyWithValue
  • deduplication of name and doc strings via boost::string_ref and a static storage (see GAUDI-1229)
• Fixes GAUDI-1205
• added deprecation warnings in service accessors of Algorithm (@graven)
• renamed Property base class to Gaudi::Details::PropertyBase and PropertyWithValue to Gaudi::Property
  • added backward compatibility type aliases (but not compatible with forward declarations of class Property, which should be replaced by #include "GaudiKernel/PropertyFwd.h")
• added macro GAUDI_PROPERTY_v2 to allow easy implementation of backward compatible changes in derived projects (e.g. when user code relied on DoubleProperty having a verifier)
• Fixes GAUDI-1268

The changes are as backward compatible as much as possible (except if you explicitly inherit from SimpleProperty, or you forward declared class Property, which now are typedefs), but must be validated in the experiment frameworks.

Validation started with lhcb-gaudi-merge#63

Added 1 commit:

• 75643e25 - restored old PropertyMgr and renamed new implementation

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• 369c7f63 - restored old PropertyMgr and renamed new implementation

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• cd660d41 - restored old PropertyMgr and renamed new implementation

Validation started with lhcb-gaudi-merge#66

Added 5 commits:

• eb4e7892 - added static_assert in PropertyHolder
• e36f8365 - improved documentation of PropertyHolder and Property
• 819b3d78 - fixed include guard of PropertyHolder.h
• 7f42f990 - added a test for copy contruction of XPropertyRef
• 884181c0 - restored Property::clone for backward compatibility

Validation started with lhcb-gaudi-merge#67

Added 2 commits:

• ee79501b - restored Property::clone for backward compatibility
• 58d9b9b5 - clean up in CArrayAsProperty.h

Validation started with lhcb-gaudi-merge#67

Added 1 commit:

• 8dc2a3a1 - added const declareProperty for backward compatibility

Validation started with lhcb-gaudi-merge#67

Added 3 commits:

• 419cac02 - applied clang-format to Algorithm.{h,cpp}
• 99e9873b - migrated Algorithm to new properties
• 1c04996a - updated test references after change in Algorithm

Added 1 commit:

• 221683a4 - fixed use of Doxygen command \deprecated

Added 6 commits:

• 263c01a0 - record source in Property self-declaration constructor
• 9f6bf37d - applied clang-format to [I]Auditor.{h,cpp}
• fbc3520c - migrated Auditor to new property declaration
• eeeb1951 - minor clean up in Algorithm
• 15ef8961 - migrated Service to new property declaration
• a56fc2b1 - updated test references after change in Service

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• b1f79e45 - migrated MinimalEventLoopMgr to new property declaration
• fecb9b85 - updated test references after change in MinimalEventLoopMgr

Added 1 commit:

• 475cc0eb - fixed compilation on slc6-gcc49 (lcg 84)

Added 6 commits:

• 4df4adec - migrated AlgTool to new property declaration
• 299d7cf7 - updated test references after change in AlgTool
• f0f846cb - added a few useful operators to PropertyWithValue
• 3718314d - migrated DataSvc to new property declaration
• 9639b5e7 - more improvements to PropertyWithValue
• 14137e69 - migrated GaudiCoreSvc to new property declaration

Added 1 commit:

• 5e3b53ca - fixed operator+(T1,Property<T2>)

Added 1 commit:

• a5be4303 - updated test references after changes in GaudiCoreSvc

Added 5 commits:

• ce82796c - migrated GaudiAud to new property declaration
• c84cc0ea - improved Property::operator implementation
• 4d9b084d - migrated GaudiAlg to new property declaration
• e8d2166b - migrated GaudiMonitor to new property declaration
• d2858a6d - migrated GaudiSvc to new property declaration