Re: Can AutoBeanFactory encode List ???

Thanks Colin,
That explains everything - my mistake was that I thought the
framework would automagically use the MyFactory interface to figure
out how to encode Lists of MyFactory objects. I still feel that it
should be able to do that, but clearly it doesn't. For anyone else who
gets confused by this - here is the working version of the test case:

public void testThing () {
Thing t1 = new Thing() { public String getName()
{ return
"one"; } };
Thing t2 = new Thing () { public String getName ()
{ return
"two"; } };
MyFactory fact = GWT.create(MyFactory.class);
AutoBean<Thing> t1Bean = fact.create (Thing.class,
t1);
AutoBean<Thing> t2Bean = fact.create (Thing.class,
t2);
String json =
AutoBeanCodex.encode(t1Bean).getPayload();
System.out.println ("payload: " + json);
final Thing [] pair = { t1Bean.as(), t2Bean.as() }; //
putting bean-wrapped objects in the list works.
Bunch b = new Bunch() { public List<Thing> getThings()
{ return
Arrays.asList(pair); } };
AutoBean<Bunch> bunchBean = fact.create (Bunch.class,
b);
// The following throws NullPointerException :(
json = AutoBeanCodex.encode(bunchBean).getPayload();
System.out.println ("payload: " + json);
}

On Jan 28, 3:30 pm, Colin Alworth <niloc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You are on the right track for this, but you need to wrap each model with
> an autobean: encodeBean.as() is not the same instance as t1, even though it
> is obtained from the autobean that wraps t1. You need to wrap each
> instance, and include the wrapped instance in the eventual tree to be
> encoded.
>
> The list may also have trouble, it has been a while since I tried to build
> something like this out. The approach I've taken, rather than manually wrap
> the whole tree, was to wrap the root object, and use an autobean visitor to
> walk the rest of the properties, wrapping and continuing further down the
> tree. I found the code in
> com.google.web.bindery.requestfactory.shared.impl.AbstractRequestContext.cl oneBeanAndCollections(AutoBean<T>)
> to be helpful as a guide when copying autobeans, along with other aspects
> of the internals of RequestFactory, which is based on Autobeans for
> transport.

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