I'd still be interested in the use case which makes the ability to make synchronous calls so desirable/indispensable -- at the GUI level. Would it be possible to share this use case with us (or personally with me, if you prefer).
Thanks Peter On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:13 AM, AndiMullaraj <[email protected]>wrote: > > Thank you both for your prompt and attentive replies. I was fearing > the answer I got from Shawn as it looks it won't be possible to > partially fetch a long collection from the server (and then fetch > items on demand). The classic collection/list interfaces don't have > the notion of "not available yet" embedded in their method definitions > so even if you cache a big nr of items coming from the server > initially, there is no guarantee the client won't consume those faster > than the connection can handle ... which obsoletes the solution > proposed by Lazo (I had the same idea initially). > > So, all classic collections (and other classic alikes) would have to > be be fetched totally before their construction ... argh! ... Or maybe > my reasoning is wrong? > > Thanks again, > Andi Mullaraj > > On Oct 16, 12:59 pm, Lazo Apostolovski <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just a little change. You need to remove command from list before call > > execute(); > > > > On Oct 16, 1:48 am, AndiMullaraj <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > There are cases when blocking calls to server are indispensable > > > (agreed, assync calls are the way to go for 99% of the cases). > > > > > I scanned the client API and cannot find a way on how to do this. If > > > not through a direct API call, is there a way on how to achieve this? > > > (Like having a wait/process_events loop going until the response comes > > > from the server). > > > > > Thanks for you attention, > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
