Thomas, The issue described by Jens doesn't seem to inherently involve MVP -- I don't quite follow the first part of your response. It seems like any widget, no matter how "dumb," could implement IsWidget directly rather than extend Composite or a more concrete Widget supertype.
Do you think his suggested approach is feasible, namely having UiBinder be able to correctly interpret Widget attributes/setters (like addStyleNames="..") for IsWidget types? On Friday, July 20, 2012 2:43:31 PM UTC-4, Thomas Broyer wrote: > > In the rare cases where a widget is complex enough to deserve an MVP > pattern, I generally use the XViewImpl directly in the UiBinder (YViewImpl) > of the other widget, and create the XPresenter from within the YPresenter > (asking the YView for an XView, similar to what Wave is doing –when > creating those things dynamically though in their case–, see > http://www.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/gwt-continuous-build-testing.html > ) > I only ever need it on a very few cases though, I don't use MVP as a > general rule on widgets, only on "activities" (or similar), that is, > coarse-grained. And I never needed to add specific styling or similar to > these widgets. > > For complex widgets that need to be reused easily and widely, I'd rather > follow the Cell widget's way: the presenter is internal to the widget; MVP > is an implementation detail, from the outside it's just a widget like any > other. > > Last but not least, there's still the idea of making UiBinder more > Guice-friendly, so you could provide a factory to the UiBinder rather (or > in addition) to @UiFactory methods. That would allow the use of a Ginjector > or an AssistedInject factory shared by several UiBinder throughout the app, > instead of having to duplicate "trampoline" @UiFactory methods in each and > every "ViewImpl": > http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=6151 > The only issue for now (AFAICT) is to find the time to implement it. > > On Friday, July 20, 2012 6:42:02 PM UTC+2, Jens wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am using GIN + MVP + UiBinder so I end up with having: >> >> - MyView.java (Interface, extends IsWidget) >> - MyViewImpl.java (UiBinder, implements MyView) >> >> Now when I want to use MyView inside a different UiBinder widget I inject >> the interface and use it along with @UiField(provided = true). >> >> That works great but as a little downside I have to re-declare Widget >> methods in my MyView interface if I want to call them directly in UiBinder, >> e.g. setWidth/setHeight/setStyleName. >> >> For setter methods that also works, but now I need to add some styles to >> MyView. In UiBinder you would normally do <my:MyView addStyleNames="list of >> styles"/> but that fails in case of my view interface (error is: >> setAddStyleNames() is not declared). Actually UiBinder special treats >> "addStyleNames" for normal widgets (it works with <my:MyViewImpl >> addStyleNames=...>) but it stops doing so when it sees something that does >> not extend Widget I guess. To solve this I am forced to create an Interface >> for my UiBinder inline CssResource just to be able to do: >> myView.asWidget().addStyleName(..). >> >> How do you guys work with view interfaces in UiBinder? Are there better >> ways than mine? >> >> My proposed RFE for UiBinder would be that UiBinder recognizes interfaces >> that extend IsWidget and then generates code that delegates to >> view.asWidget().method() as long as "method()" is available in Widget or >> UiObject class. Any opinions? >> >> -- J. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit/-/cHLF8qSMNLwJ. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@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.