Annotations in client code can be used during GWT's rebind phase of the compilation, but they are not accessible at runtime on the client side. GWT doesn't support much of Java's reflection functionality on the client side in order to keep the compiled Javascript code smaller.
You can write a custom generator, which can be called to create implementation code for specific interfaces during the rebind phase, to generate your marshaling code at compile-time. This is the approach taken by lovely-gwt-jsonrpc <http://code.google.com/p/lovely-gwt-jsonrpc/>, for example, and is how all of GWT's built-in RPC functionality works. You may be able to leverage some or all of the work in that project to accomplish what you're trying to do. Jamie On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:21 PM, keyboard_samurai <yog...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am a newbie to GWT. Need to know if GWT can support custom > annotations on client side ?. The reason for custom annotations is i > would be communicating with the backend service through json and not > gwt rpc and i wouldnt like each developer to write the same piece of > code. So i was planning to annotated my entity classes which can be > used for marshalling and unmarshalling json response. > > Please do let me know if this can be done in GWT. > > Thanks in advance > > cheers! > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-web-toolkit%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
