Re: Best way to extending existing GWT JRE implementation?

On Sunday, December 20, 2015 at 1:09:01 AM UTC+1, JR Schmidt wrote:

I am attempting to extending an existing GWT JRE implementation.  When a class an existing JRE class is missing, it is straightforward to add the missing class.  However when GWT provides a PARTIAL implementation, I have found no easy way to manually implement one or more missing methods.

I believe that deferred binding might be a possible solution, HOWEVER I am dealing with some shared library code and I don't want to have to resort to GWT.create everywhere.

Deferred binding won't help you there.

 

When I simply try to override the GWT-supplied class (copy/pasting the existing GWT code, and adding to it), the changes to not appear to "stick" and the compiler appears to use the standard classes from gwt-user.jar.

It depends on the classpath order and (more importantly) the ResourceOracle order. See https://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/wiki/ResourceOracle for more information about the ResourceOracle priority (backed up at https://github.com/gwtproject/old_google_code_wiki/blob/master/ResourceOracle.wiki.md)

 

Is there a simple solution to this?  I would like to avoid forking GWT locally to prevent future headache.

IMO, a fork is probably the best here. Shadowing existing super-sources will likely lead to more headache when updating GWT (lesser traceability of changes).

Even better would be to contribute the changes upstream if possible.

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