Right. Its harder with the overlay types to define a map or something like that. You could try to wrap the JavaScriptObject with some class that knows to convert a list in native JS into a Java Map, but at that point you have about half of GWT's own RPC system, or gwtjsonrpc. This case of wanting rich Java types but a clear JSON encoding is why I wrote gwtjsonrpc.
A thought just occured to me though; a JSON "map" would typically be an object with the keys being the property names... but JSON only permits strings for the property names and you mention wanting some other types. gwtjsonrpc should support any Object type in the key (so long as it is declared to be a concrete type in the Map<> type parameter), but for non string typed key maps gwtjsonrpc uses a JSON array of pairs (even index is key, odd is value). I'm not sure what sort of encoding you were looking for or needing here... (for Map<String,...> it uses the standard object notation). On Dec 17, 2008 11:12 AM, "Clint Gilbert" < [email protected]> wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Thanks very much, I'll take a look at wgtjsonrpc. My app needs to serialize a non-trival map of data: String => Date-range class => other user-defined type => data POJO, currently. I'm familiar with Overlay types, and somewhat familiar with JSNI, so I think I could write a class that wraps a JavaScriptObject and uses that handle as the backing map. Then I could just serialize the wrapped JSO. But then I'd lose some useful features of a Java Map, like being able to use non-primitive types for keys, nice methods like keySet(), etc, no? Shawn Pearce wrote: > Roll your own, or look at gwtjsonrpc: > > http://android.git.kernel.org/?p... > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 18:34, [email protected]<mailto: clint.gilb...@childrens.... > similarly to the json2.js lib from json.org<http://json.org> that I was using prior to > moving to the GWT, but anything relatively straightforward that > performs well is fine with me. >... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJSU+ErZoE3ArapxERCFm6AKCBhbEn83de4ivjGGgBAagpEAFGaQCeIDJL 3xJzW9oU0UXdC9WuiFUbm3M= =/zOi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are su... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
