i think you could create another proxy for Client which is just id and name
But I had a similar need some time ago and I found it better to use gwt-rpc
for that specific case, although the app uses mainly requestfactory
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Gal Dolber <gal.dol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Imagine an example:
> let say I want to show in the client the following table of Sales:
>
> Id | Client | Product | Number
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1 | John Doe(2) | iMac 27'(23) | 1
> 2 | Chris More(3) | Mac book'(4) | 2
>
> With Sale being:
>
> class Sale {
> private long id;
> private Client client;
> private Product product;
> private Integer number;
>
> .....
> }
>
> John Doe(2) is the name of the client and 2 is the id. Same thing for
> Product.
> The problem is that to find out the Client's name I need to send it to the
> client (in the case of RequestFactory as a ClientProxy).
> I don't want to send the whole Client throw the wire when I only need the
> id and a "string representation". Plus, the example being a table, it may be
> listing 30+ Sales, and include the relationship makes it really heavy to
> load.
>
> The question is how can I do with RF to get a "string representation" and
> the id of a Proxy without loading it all?
>
> Before using RF I used two object i.e: Sale and SaleDto, and I made the
> conversion myself on the server.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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