I am using GWT-RTTI without any problems in a large project 
: https://github.com/FrankW76/gwt-rtti (which is github fork I created (and 
did some fixes in) from the Google Code project 
: https://code.google.com/p/gwt-rtti/ )

Op dinsdag 1 december 2015 21:26:09 UTC+1 schreef Jonathan Fischer:
>
> That's about what I thought, thanks. This particular bit of pain isn't 
> large enough to merit a generator or annotation processor, and goes away w/ 
> Java 8 anyway, so I'll just put up with it for now. :)
>
> On Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 1:31:46 AM UTC-8, Thomas Broyer wrote:
>>
>> It is effectively not possible to use reflection in GWT (well, not 
>> entirely true, some people have made libraries to make it somehow 
>> possible); see notes in 
>> http://www.gwtproject.org/doc/latest/DevGuideCodingBasicsCompatibility.html 
>> and 
>> http://www.gwtproject.org/doc/latest/DevGuideCodingBasicsDeferred.html#benefits
>>  
>> (returned by a search on "reflection" in the website).
>> Note however that GWT Generators are likely to go away in the so-called 
>> "GWT 3.0" and you're invited to use annotation processors instead. In any 
>> case, the idea is the same: to cut down on boilerplate, have it generated 
>> for you rather than relying on reflection; in other words, do your 
>> meta-programming at compilation-time rather than at runtime.
>>
>> On Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 10:25:23 AM UTC+1, Jonathan Fischer wrote:
>>>
>>> Basically, I want to cut down on a bunch of boilerplate code (needing to 
>>> check if a list of boolean fields are true/false across a collection of 
>>> objects). In normal Java, I can use Class.getDeclaredField and 
>>> Field.getBoolean to do that, something like:
>>>
>>>
>>> public static boolean allTrue(Class<? extends Object> cls, List<? 
>>> extends Object> things, String fieldName) {
>>>  try {
>>>   Field field = cls.getDeclaredField(fieldName);
>>>   boolean val = true;
>>>   for (Object o : things) {
>>>    val = val && field.getBoolean(o);
>>>   }
>>>
>>>   return val;
>>>  } catch (Exception e) {
>>>   return false;
>>>  }
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't see any way to accomplish the same thing in GWT code, at least 
>>> not in the GWT site 
>>> <http://www.gwtproject.org/doc/latest/RefJreEmulation.html>. Is this 
>>> just not an option under GWT?
>>>
>>

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