Re: Two generator questions
You have no idea how deep the rabbit hole is :) On 22 March 2010 03:06, Philippe Beaudoin philippe.beaud...@gmail.comwrote: Yes. Much simpler indeed. Would you believe I didn't even know you could have static instances attached to interfaces... I'm still relatively new to Java. :) Cheers and thanks again. On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Gal Dolber gal.dol...@gmail.com wrote: You don't need to do that, you can just put a static instance of the Injector on the injector interface. 2010/3/21 PhilBeaudoin philippe.beaud...@gmail.com One last update: I don't think its a good idea to GWT.create() the ginjector multiple times. I got rid of this by creating it once in a static field in my entry point class, and then accessing that field within my generated class. This brings me to another question: To find the name of the entry point class, I had to create a configuration property. Is there a way, within a generator, to access the entry point class defined in the module: entry-point class='com.puzzlebazar.client.Puzzlebazar' / On Mar 21, 1:01 am, PhilBeaudoin philippe.beaud...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, well... Method injection didn't work either, the method just never got called (as expected...) I finally was able to make it work using the technique you proposed by initializing the generated classes after the injector is created. Just to give a bit more details to anybody else interested in this... Here is how you define a configuration property in your project.gwt.xml: define-configuration-property name=gin.injector is-multi- valued=false / set-configuration-property name=gin.injector value=com.project.client.gin.MyGinjector / Here is how you access this property in your generator: String ginjectorClassName = ctx.getPropertyOracle().getConfigurationProperty(gin.injector).getValues( ).get(0); Now if you want an injector in the source code you generate you do: writer.println( ginjectorClassName + injector = GWT.create( + ginjectorClassName + .class); ); Thanks again Gal. This is a neat trick! Philippe On Mar 20, 8:34 pm, PhilBeaudoin philippe.beaud...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Gal, it really helped! I'm not quite sure I know how to include a folder in my lookup entries. Is this something I can do in Eclipse debugger? The idea of using the injector directly didn't quite work, because I need my generated class to be instanciated .asEagerSingleton(). If I try calling GWT.create( MyGingector ) within the generated class I get infinite recursion. If I instead try to assign the MyGingector instance to some static variable, it doesn't work either because the variable isn't initialized yet. However, I've decided to rework my generated class to use method injection instead of constructor injection and it seems to work very well! Cheers, Philippe On Mar 20, 7:31 pm, Gal Dolber gal.dol...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, To view the generated class compile with -gen /somepathonyourdisk, another tip to debug a generated class: include in your lookup entries the folder where the generated classes are and you will be able to step through the generated code. And to use gin into your generated class I didn't found a great solution, because you can inject an interface that is generated but gin just make a GWT.create(theinterface.class); and it wont inject into the generated class. This is what I did: Add an set-configuration-property into your module (define it first) and specify on it the location of your injector, then use directly the injector into your generated code. Like this: add-configuration-property name=gin.injector value=com.some.gin.MyGinInjector / Regards 2010/3/20 PhilBeaudoin philippe.beaud...@gmail.com I'm trying to write my first GWT generator... I've gotten pretty far, but I have the following questions: 1) Is there any way to see the generated class for debugging purposes? For example, can I force GWT to produce the .java file for my generated class (it did it once when I had an error, but I can't force it to produce it every time.) Any other hints as to how to debug a generated class? 2) I'd like to use GIN to inject objects in the constructor of the generated class. I'm not quite sure if this works or how to make it work. Any hints would be great! Thanks! -- 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.comgoogle-web-toolkit%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.comgoogle-web-toolkit%2Bunsubs cr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this
Re: Two generator questions
Yeah, well... Method injection didn't work either, the method just never got called (as expected...) I finally was able to make it work using the technique you proposed by initializing the generated classes after the injector is created. Just to give a bit more details to anybody else interested in this... Here is how you define a configuration property in your project.gwt.xml: define-configuration-property name=gin.injector is-multi- valued=false / set-configuration-property name=gin.injector value=com.project.client.gin.MyGinjector / Here is how you access this property in your generator: String ginjectorClassName = ctx.getPropertyOracle().getConfigurationProperty(gin.injector).getValues().get(0); Now if you want an injector in the source code you generate you do: writer.println( ginjectorClassName + injector = GWT.create( + ginjectorClassName + .class); ); Thanks again Gal. This is a neat trick! Philippe On Mar 20, 8:34 pm, PhilBeaudoin philippe.beaud...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Gal, it really helped! I'm not quite sure I know how to include a folder in my lookup entries. Is this something I can do in Eclipse debugger? The idea of using the injector directly didn't quite work, because I need my generated class to be instanciated .asEagerSingleton(). If I try calling GWT.create( MyGingector ) within the generated class I get infinite recursion. If I instead try to assign the MyGingector instance to some static variable, it doesn't work either because the variable isn't initialized yet. However, I've decided to rework my generated class to use method injection instead of constructor injection and it seems to work very well! Cheers, Philippe On Mar 20, 7:31 pm, Gal Dolber gal.dol...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, To view the generated class compile with -gen /somepathonyourdisk, another tip to debug a generated class: include in your lookup entries the folder where the generated classes are and you will be able to step through the generated code. And to use gin into your generated class I didn't found a great solution, because you can inject an interface that is generated but gin just make a GWT.create(theinterface.class); and it wont inject into the generated class. This is what I did: Add an set-configuration-property into your module (define it first) and specify on it the location of your injector, then use directly the injector into your generated code. Like this: add-configuration-property name=gin.injector value=com.some.gin.MyGinInjector / Regards 2010/3/20 PhilBeaudoin philippe.beaud...@gmail.com I'm trying to write my first GWT generator... I've gotten pretty far, but I have the following questions: 1) Is there any way to see the generated class for debugging purposes? For example, can I force GWT to produce the .java file for my generated class (it did it once when I had an error, but I can't force it to produce it every time.) Any other hints as to how to debug a generated class? 2) I'd like to use GIN to inject objects in the constructor of the generated class. I'm not quite sure if this works or how to make it work. Any hints would be great! Thanks! -- 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.comgoogle-web-toolkit%2Bunsubs cr...@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.
Re: Two generator questions
One last update: I don't think its a good idea to GWT.create() the ginjector multiple times. I got rid of this by creating it once in a static field in my entry point class, and then accessing that field within my generated class. This brings me to another question: To find the name of the entry point class, I had to create a configuration property. Is there a way, within a generator, to access the entry point class defined in the module: entry-point class='com.puzzlebazar.client.Puzzlebazar' / On Mar 21, 1:01 am, PhilBeaudoin philippe.beaud...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, well... Method injection didn't work either, the method just never got called (as expected...) I finally was able to make it work using the technique you proposed by initializing the generated classes after the injector is created. Just to give a bit more details to anybody else interested in this... Here is how you define a configuration property in your project.gwt.xml: define-configuration-property name=gin.injector is-multi- valued=false / set-configuration-property name=gin.injector value=com.project.client.gin.MyGinjector / Here is how you access this property in your generator: String ginjectorClassName = ctx.getPropertyOracle().getConfigurationProperty(gin.injector).getValues( ).get(0); Now if you want an injector in the source code you generate you do: writer.println( ginjectorClassName + injector = GWT.create( + ginjectorClassName + .class); ); Thanks again Gal. This is a neat trick! Philippe On Mar 20, 8:34 pm, PhilBeaudoin philippe.beaud...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Gal, it really helped! I'm not quite sure I know how to include a folder in my lookup entries. Is this something I can do in Eclipse debugger? The idea of using the injector directly didn't quite work, because I need my generated class to be instanciated .asEagerSingleton(). If I try calling GWT.create( MyGingector ) within the generated class I get infinite recursion. If I instead try to assign the MyGingector instance to some static variable, it doesn't work either because the variable isn't initialized yet. However, I've decided to rework my generated class to use method injection instead of constructor injection and it seems to work very well! Cheers, Philippe On Mar 20, 7:31 pm, Gal Dolber gal.dol...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, To view the generated class compile with -gen /somepathonyourdisk, another tip to debug a generated class: include in your lookup entries the folder where the generated classes are and you will be able to step through the generated code. And to use gin into your generated class I didn't found a great solution, because you can inject an interface that is generated but gin just make a GWT.create(theinterface.class); and it wont inject into the generated class. This is what I did: Add an set-configuration-property into your module (define it first) and specify on it the location of your injector, then use directly the injector into your generated code. Like this: add-configuration-property name=gin.injector value=com.some.gin.MyGinInjector / Regards 2010/3/20 PhilBeaudoin philippe.beaud...@gmail.com I'm trying to write my first GWT generator... I've gotten pretty far, but I have the following questions: 1) Is there any way to see the generated class for debugging purposes? For example, can I force GWT to produce the .java file for my generated class (it did it once when I had an error, but I can't force it to produce it every time.) Any other hints as to how to debug a generated class? 2) I'd like to use GIN to inject objects in the constructor of the generated class. I'm not quite sure if this works or how to make it work. Any hints would be great! Thanks! -- 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.comgoogle-web-toolkit%2Bunsubs cr...@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.
Re: Two generator questions
You don't need to do that, you can just put a static instance of the Injector on the injector interface. 2010/3/21 PhilBeaudoin philippe.beaud...@gmail.com One last update: I don't think its a good idea to GWT.create() the ginjector multiple times. I got rid of this by creating it once in a static field in my entry point class, and then accessing that field within my generated class. This brings me to another question: To find the name of the entry point class, I had to create a configuration property. Is there a way, within a generator, to access the entry point class defined in the module: entry-point class='com.puzzlebazar.client.Puzzlebazar' / On Mar 21, 1:01 am, PhilBeaudoin philippe.beaud...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, well... Method injection didn't work either, the method just never got called (as expected...) I finally was able to make it work using the technique you proposed by initializing the generated classes after the injector is created. Just to give a bit more details to anybody else interested in this... Here is how you define a configuration property in your project.gwt.xml: define-configuration-property name=gin.injector is-multi- valued=false / set-configuration-property name=gin.injector value=com.project.client.gin.MyGinjector / Here is how you access this property in your generator: String ginjectorClassName = ctx.getPropertyOracle().getConfigurationProperty(gin.injector).getValues( ).get(0); Now if you want an injector in the source code you generate you do: writer.println( ginjectorClassName + injector = GWT.create( + ginjectorClassName + .class); ); Thanks again Gal. This is a neat trick! Philippe On Mar 20, 8:34 pm, PhilBeaudoin philippe.beaud...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Gal, it really helped! I'm not quite sure I know how to include a folder in my lookup entries. Is this something I can do in Eclipse debugger? The idea of using the injector directly didn't quite work, because I need my generated class to be instanciated .asEagerSingleton(). If I try calling GWT.create( MyGingector ) within the generated class I get infinite recursion. If I instead try to assign the MyGingector instance to some static variable, it doesn't work either because the variable isn't initialized yet. However, I've decided to rework my generated class to use method injection instead of constructor injection and it seems to work very well! Cheers, Philippe On Mar 20, 7:31 pm, Gal Dolber gal.dol...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, To view the generated class compile with -gen /somepathonyourdisk, another tip to debug a generated class: include in your lookup entries the folder where the generated classes are and you will be able to step through the generated code. And to use gin into your generated class I didn't found a great solution, because you can inject an interface that is generated but gin just make a GWT.create(theinterface.class); and it wont inject into the generated class. This is what I did: Add an set-configuration-property into your module (define it first) and specify on it the location of your injector, then use directly the injector into your generated code. Like this: add-configuration-property name=gin.injector value=com.some.gin.MyGinInjector / Regards 2010/3/20 PhilBeaudoin philippe.beaud...@gmail.com I'm trying to write my first GWT generator... I've gotten pretty far, but I have the following questions: 1) Is there any way to see the generated class for debugging purposes? For example, can I force GWT to produce the .java file for my generated class (it did it once when I had an error, but I can't force it to produce it every time.) Any other hints as to how to debug a generated class? 2) I'd like to use GIN to inject objects in the constructor of the generated class. I'm not quite sure if this works or how to make it work. Any hints would be great! Thanks! -- 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.comgoogle-web-toolkit%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.comgoogle-web-toolkit%2Bunsubs cr...@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.comgoogle-web-toolkit%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com .
Re: Two generator questions
Yes. Much simpler indeed. Would you believe I didn't even know you could have static instances attached to interfaces... I'm still relatively new to Java. :) Cheers and thanks again. On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Gal Dolber gal.dol...@gmail.com wrote: You don't need to do that, you can just put a static instance of the Injector on the injector interface. 2010/3/21 PhilBeaudoin philippe.beaud...@gmail.com One last update: I don't think its a good idea to GWT.create() the ginjector multiple times. I got rid of this by creating it once in a static field in my entry point class, and then accessing that field within my generated class. This brings me to another question: To find the name of the entry point class, I had to create a configuration property. Is there a way, within a generator, to access the entry point class defined in the module: entry-point class='com.puzzlebazar.client.Puzzlebazar' / On Mar 21, 1:01 am, PhilBeaudoin philippe.beaud...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, well... Method injection didn't work either, the method just never got called (as expected...) I finally was able to make it work using the technique you proposed by initializing the generated classes after the injector is created. Just to give a bit more details to anybody else interested in this... Here is how you define a configuration property in your project.gwt.xml: define-configuration-property name=gin.injector is-multi- valued=false / set-configuration-property name=gin.injector value=com.project.client.gin.MyGinjector / Here is how you access this property in your generator: String ginjectorClassName = ctx.getPropertyOracle().getConfigurationProperty(gin.injector).getValues( ).get(0); Now if you want an injector in the source code you generate you do: writer.println( ginjectorClassName + injector = GWT.create( + ginjectorClassName + .class); ); Thanks again Gal. This is a neat trick! Philippe On Mar 20, 8:34 pm, PhilBeaudoin philippe.beaud...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Gal, it really helped! I'm not quite sure I know how to include a folder in my lookup entries. Is this something I can do in Eclipse debugger? The idea of using the injector directly didn't quite work, because I need my generated class to be instanciated .asEagerSingleton(). If I try calling GWT.create( MyGingector ) within the generated class I get infinite recursion. If I instead try to assign the MyGingector instance to some static variable, it doesn't work either because the variable isn't initialized yet. However, I've decided to rework my generated class to use method injection instead of constructor injection and it seems to work very well! Cheers, Philippe On Mar 20, 7:31 pm, Gal Dolber gal.dol...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, To view the generated class compile with -gen /somepathonyourdisk, another tip to debug a generated class: include in your lookup entries the folder where the generated classes are and you will be able to step through the generated code. And to use gin into your generated class I didn't found a great solution, because you can inject an interface that is generated but gin just make a GWT.create(theinterface.class); and it wont inject into the generated class. This is what I did: Add an set-configuration-property into your module (define it first) and specify on it the location of your injector, then use directly the injector into your generated code. Like this: add-configuration-property name=gin.injector value=com.some.gin.MyGinInjector / Regards 2010/3/20 PhilBeaudoin philippe.beaud...@gmail.com I'm trying to write my first GWT generator... I've gotten pretty far, but I have the following questions: 1) Is there any way to see the generated class for debugging purposes? For example, can I force GWT to produce the .java file for my generated class (it did it once when I had an error, but I can't force it to produce it every time.) Any other hints as to how to debug a generated class? 2) I'd like to use GIN to inject objects in the constructor of the generated class. I'm not quite sure if this works or how to make it work. Any hints would be great! Thanks! -- 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.comgoogle-web-toolkit%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.comgoogle-web-toolkit%2Bunsubs cr...@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
Two generator questions
I'm trying to write my first GWT generator... I've gotten pretty far, but I have the following questions: 1) Is there any way to see the generated class for debugging purposes? For example, can I force GWT to produce the .java file for my generated class (it did it once when I had an error, but I can't force it to produce it every time.) Any other hints as to how to debug a generated class? 2) I'd like to use GIN to inject objects in the constructor of the generated class. I'm not quite sure if this works or how to make it work. Any hints would be great! Thanks! -- 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.
Re: Two generator questions
Ok, To view the generated class compile with -gen /somepathonyourdisk, another tip to debug a generated class: include in your lookup entries the folder where the generated classes are and you will be able to step through the generated code. And to use gin into your generated class I didn't found a great solution, because you can inject an interface that is generated but gin just make a GWT.create(theinterface.class); and it wont inject into the generated class. This is what I did: Add an set-configuration-property into your module (define it first) and specify on it the location of your injector, then use directly the injector into your generated code. Like this: add-configuration-property name=gin.injector value=com.some.gin.MyGinInjector / Regards 2010/3/20 PhilBeaudoin philippe.beaud...@gmail.com I'm trying to write my first GWT generator... I've gotten pretty far, but I have the following questions: 1) Is there any way to see the generated class for debugging purposes? For example, can I force GWT to produce the .java file for my generated class (it did it once when I had an error, but I can't force it to produce it every time.) Any other hints as to how to debug a generated class? 2) I'd like to use GIN to inject objects in the constructor of the generated class. I'm not quite sure if this works or how to make it work. Any hints would be great! Thanks! -- 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.comgoogle-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.
Re: Two generator questions
Thanks Gal, it really helped! I'm not quite sure I know how to include a folder in my lookup entries. Is this something I can do in Eclipse debugger? The idea of using the injector directly didn't quite work, because I need my generated class to be instanciated .asEagerSingleton(). If I try calling GWT.create( MyGingector ) within the generated class I get infinite recursion. If I instead try to assign the MyGingector instance to some static variable, it doesn't work either because the variable isn't initialized yet. However, I've decided to rework my generated class to use method injection instead of constructor injection and it seems to work very well! Cheers, Philippe On Mar 20, 7:31 pm, Gal Dolber gal.dol...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, To view the generated class compile with -gen /somepathonyourdisk, another tip to debug a generated class: include in your lookup entries the folder where the generated classes are and you will be able to step through the generated code. And to use gin into your generated class I didn't found a great solution, because you can inject an interface that is generated but gin just make a GWT.create(theinterface.class); and it wont inject into the generated class. This is what I did: Add an set-configuration-property into your module (define it first) and specify on it the location of your injector, then use directly the injector into your generated code. Like this: add-configuration-property name=gin.injector value=com.some.gin.MyGinInjector / Regards 2010/3/20 PhilBeaudoin philippe.beaud...@gmail.com I'm trying to write my first GWT generator... I've gotten pretty far, but I have the following questions: 1) Is there any way to see the generated class for debugging purposes? For example, can I force GWT to produce the .java file for my generated class (it did it once when I had an error, but I can't force it to produce it every time.) Any other hints as to how to debug a generated class? 2) I'd like to use GIN to inject objects in the constructor of the generated class. I'm not quite sure if this works or how to make it work. Any hints would be great! Thanks! -- 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.comgoogle-web-toolkit%2Bunsubs cr...@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.
