That's about what I thought, thanks. This particular bit of pain isn't 
large enough to merit a generator or annotation processor, and goes away w/ 
Java 8 anyway, so I'll just put up with it for now. :)

On Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 1:31:46 AM UTC-8, Thomas Broyer wrote:
>
> It is effectively not possible to use reflection in GWT (well, not 
> entirely true, some people have made libraries to make it somehow 
> possible); see notes in 
> http://www.gwtproject.org/doc/latest/DevGuideCodingBasicsCompatibility.html 
> and 
> http://www.gwtproject.org/doc/latest/DevGuideCodingBasicsDeferred.html#benefits
>  
> (returned by a search on "reflection" in the website).
> Note however that GWT Generators are likely to go away in the so-called 
> "GWT 3.0" and you're invited to use annotation processors instead. In any 
> case, the idea is the same: to cut down on boilerplate, have it generated 
> for you rather than relying on reflection; in other words, do your 
> meta-programming at compilation-time rather than at runtime.
>
> On Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 10:25:23 AM UTC+1, Jonathan Fischer wrote:
>>
>> Basically, I want to cut down on a bunch of boilerplate code (needing to 
>> check if a list of boolean fields are true/false across a collection of 
>> objects). In normal Java, I can use Class.getDeclaredField and 
>> Field.getBoolean to do that, something like:
>>
>>
>> public static boolean allTrue(Class<? extends Object> cls, List<? extends 
>> Object> things, String fieldName) {
>>  try {
>>   Field field = cls.getDeclaredField(fieldName);
>>   boolean val = true;
>>   for (Object o : things) {
>>    val = val && field.getBoolean(o);
>>   }
>>
>>   return val;
>>  } catch (Exception e) {
>>   return false;
>>  }
>> }
>>
>>
>> I don't see any way to accomplish the same thing in GWT code, at least 
>> not in the GWT site 
>> <http://www.gwtproject.org/doc/latest/RefJreEmulation.html>. Is this 
>> just not an option under GWT?
>>
>

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