How to use custom elements (web components) with JsInterop and Elemental 2?

Hello again,

I have a custom element defined in HTML and trying to communicate with it from GWT and with JsInterop.

Similar to how I can create a div element and cast it to the Elemental 2 HTMLDivElement, I have defined MyAppElement extending Elemental 2 HTMLElement

and using the same JsInterop annotations as for HTMLDivElement:

  @JsType(isNative = true, namespace = JsPackage.GLOBAL)

  public class MyAppElement extends HTMLElement {

    ...

  }

The following works fine:

    Element element = DomGlobal.document.createElement("div");

    HTMLDivElement divElement = (HTMLDivElement) element;

... but for my custom element I cannot cast it to MyAppElement:

    Element element = DomGlobal.document.createElement("my-app");

    MyAppElement myAppElement = (MyAppElement) element; // Throws ClassCastException

What am I missing?

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