Re: Protocol Buffers for GWT: Issue 2649

On Friday, December 28, 2012 12:33:19 AM UTC+1, Goktug Gokdogan wrote:

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Thomas Broyer <t.br...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Saturday, December 22, 2012 2:50:00 AM UTC+1, Goktug Gokdogan wrote:

GWT's built-in library space is already bloated and getting harder to maintain. Inside GWT, we need to do less but do better.

And good thing is, a lot of stuff doesn't need to be baked in; like the protocol buffers; it is a valuable feature but I personally don't see GWT having it as a first class citizen; at least in the near term.

On the other hand we can definitely help out on removing any blockers and support anybody who would like to implement it as a 3rd party library.

+1

Wondering what Google is doing though ;-)

Are you somehow generating, say, RequestFactory ValueProxy-s from .proto files? It looks like what BobV was planning.

 

There is compiler plugin that generates lightweight GWT emulations of the messages based on JavaScript overlays.

On top of that, there is a custom RPC mechanism that mimics GWT RPC. Wire format is like JSON-RPC where 'params' is js array encoded protobuf.

I think there has been multiple solutions but I guess this one got wider acceptance. Unfortunately, nobody actively working on it and not ready to open-source.

Thanks.

Looks a bit like what I did years ago to call "REST-alike web services", except I coded everything by hand.

Also looks a bit like gwt-json-rpc used by Gerrit, but interfaces and JSOs are hand-coded too.

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