Hi Walden,
I'm not sure that I got your idea, but I always had a concern about
that so I'll share it with you:
1. Does the GWT application have just one html page (module-name.html)
that all the content should be rendered there?
What I mean is that Litty wrote "if the URL ends with /about then
the AboutService will be called". Well but what if that AboutService
does not extends or consists of any UI element? What is gonna to be
displayed on the browser?
2. What I've received from your idea above is, each service should
have its own (index.html)??!! If that was the case, each time I click
on a menu item then a whole new page is going to be rendered and the
browser will send an HTTP request and page will be rebuilt and
displayed, which is not the case here: http://extjs.com/ Please try to
click any menu item and notice that only a portion of the page is
rendered (the section under the menu) and not the whole page.
Actually, this is exactly what I need to do but I think I was not
clear enough.
3. Suppose that I want to pass parameters in the URL in some
customized format; not using the regular way
http://domain/service?param1=value1¶m2=value2.
For example, something like that:
http://domain/service/param1/value1/param2/value2.
Where should I write my own code that should take care of this
customized URL "encoding"?? I mean, is there any place in GWT
application where I could capture the URL and manipulate it before
redirect it to some place depending on some parameters passed?? I
guess there is something in .NET called HTTP Handler or Generic
Handler to deal with that. I think this is an issue that the Web
Server should deal with it not the GWT application???!!!
Thank you very much.
On Nov 5, 5:56 pm, walden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Muhannad,
>
> There's a problem with your assumptions. When a user clicks on your
> "about" menu link, she's not going to get a Panel, she's going to get
> a whole new page fromhttp://domain/about/index.html. That page can
> be a GWT host file if you like, but this is regular HTML pages, not a
> rich GWT client showing and hiding content based on menu navigation.
> I think you'd better get your head around that first, and then tackle
> the RPC URL binding question next, if it's even an issue at all.
>
> Walden
>
> On Nov 5, 5:12 am,Muhannad<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I want to build a website with (Home, about, products, ...) menu. I
> > need to build multiple forms (panels), each panel corresponds to one
> > menu item, e.g. aboutPanel for "about" menu item, productsPanel for
> > "products"...
>
> > Moreover, I would like to implement that panel in terms of RPC
> > services; I need to correspond each panel to a single RPC service that
> > communicates with the server to get its data, build the whole form,
> > and return the result as a panel to be displayed somewhere in the home
> > page (for example).
>
> > Of course, GWT allows us to define multiple services and add multiple
> > <servlet path="/service" ...> to the module XML file.
>
> > My problem is how to know which service should I instantiate depending
> > on the URL mapping, i.e. suppose that the menu is defined as follow:
>
> > <div id="menu">
> > <a href="index.html">Home</a>
> > <a href="/about">About us</a>
> > <a href="/products">Products</a>
> > ...
> > </div>
>
> > So when someone clicks the "About us" link, the URL would be "http://
> > domain/about". So I should instantiate the "about" service and create
> > an aboutPanel to display it. The same thing when s/he clicks the
> > "Products" link, then the URL is "http://domain/products"; and, in this
> > case, I should build the product panel...
>
> > So, is there somewhere in GWT application that I could parse the URL
> > and depending on the mapping portion of it "/about" or "/products"
> > could I decide which service to instantiate? Or is there another
> > better way to do that?
>
> > Thank you very much in advance.
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