Hi Thomas,
yes that sounds like exactly what I need. What I don't really understand is:
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you loop over the PropertyDto-s and push their values to the corresponding
text box
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how do I gain access to the text-boxes? Do you have any example I can refer
to?
Many Thanks
On Monday, January 7, 2013 3:08:54 AM UTC+2, Thomas Broyer wrote:
>
>
>
> On Monday, January 7, 2013 12:58:36 AM UTC+1, paran...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> first of all I'm sorry if I sound incompetent but the truth is I'm fairly
>> new to GWT. So here's what I want to do: I have a database with different
>> itemtypes (Product, User, Country, etc...).
>> I want to make a GWT application that edits these item types. For that
>> purpose I have created a dto called EntityDto which contains a list of
>> SectionDto, which in itself contains a list of PropertyDto. So the
>> PropertyDto is a representation of each of the item's properties
>> (Product.code for instance). The PropertyDto has the following signature:
>>
>> public class PropertyDto implements Serializable {
>>
>> private String id;
>> private String value;
>>
>> /* getters/setters */
>> ....
>> }
>>
>> So I have managed to display a form with TextField for the Entity's
>> properties and their values. Now I want to submit the changed values and
>> persist them in the database. As I was reading on the internet this is
>> achieved using a combination of a Driver and Editor. My problem is that I
>> don't have a real POJO to use any of the existing drivers. All I want is to
>> map the field with id code, for instance, to the String in
>> EntityDto.PropertyDto.value (for whichever PropertyDto has the same id).
>>
>> Is there any solution to this? How would you create a form that is not
>> backed by a bean but instead by a dynamic map or a list for instance?
>>
>
> In any case, you'll have to do it manually.
> If you need to use the Editor framework, and/or your scenario is complex
> enough to make it worth it, then you can use a
> ValueAwareEditor<SectionDto>: in setValue you loop over the PropertyDto-s
> and push their values to the corresponding text box, and in flush() you do
> the reverse (from text box to PropertyDto).
>
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