Dear fellow GWT users, I would like to announce that I have finally solved what I always thought to be GWT's greatest weakness: its lack of debugging information for client-side exceptions in production.
With my patch, your deployed app will be able to report stack traces like this: com.google.gwt.core.client.JavaScriptException: (TypeError) : a is null com.google.gwt.dom.client.DOMImplMozilla.$getBodyOffsetLeft(DOMImplMozilla.java:145) com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.PopupPanel.$setPopupPosition(Document.java:1287) com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.PopupPanel.setPopupPosition(PopupPanel.java:884) com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.PopupPanel.PopupPanel(PopupPanel.java:453) com.typeracer.commons.client.widgets.EnhancedPopup.EnhancedPopup(EnhancedPopup.java:32) com.typeracer.commons.client.widgets.PopupWithIcon.PopupWithIcon(PopupWithFocusableTextBox.java:28) com.typeracer.main.client.controller.TyperacerUncaughtExceptionHandler$1.execute(TyperacerUncaughtExceptionHandler.java:55) com.google.gwt.core.client.impl.SchedulerImpl.runScheduledTasks(SchedulerImpl.java:50) etc... :-) instead of the current state of affairs that looks like this: lineNumber: 3190 columnNumber: 15354: a is null; (TypeError) fileName: http://localhost:8088/9C4DC2D905BEA407601C92C56B43E3B8.cache.html stack: @http://localhost:8088/9C4DC2D905BEA407601C92C56B43E3B8.cache.html:2422 Rub@http://localhost:8088/9C4DC2D905BEA407601C92C56B43E3B8.cache.html:2423 dSb@http://localhost:8088/9C4DC2D905BEA407601C92C56B43E3B8.cache.html:3190 tA@http://localhost:8088/9C4DC2D905BEA407601C92C56B43E3B8.cache.html:2810 Xmb@http://localhost:8088/9C4DC2D905BEA407601C92C56B43E3B8.cache.html:2289 etc... :-( I am asking the community to support me in finishing this effort and integrating my patch into GWT. Please take a look and what I've done, and consider making a donation: http://igg.me/at/gwt-stack-traces/x/3494291 I am an indie developer and I just need some funding to continue this work. I'm looking for both grassroots and corporate sponsorship for my quest of improving GWT's error reporting and debugging support. I've written a detailed white paper ( http://goo.gl/YGsrQ ) that describes how my solution works and why it is necessary. I welcome your feedback! Thanks! Alex -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-web-toolkit-contributors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
