... I see it a little overcomplicated, is no easier to declare private
fields and only getters ?

As GWT does serialization and desarialization when a RPC call is done
- that is, it converts the object to text ( to travel across HTTP )
and creates a new object filling it with the serializated content -
final fields are killers for this behaviour.

If you provide no contructor, the empty constructor is created; but a
class with a constructor cannot create-on-the-fly an empty one
( because the class specificaction is the constructors you provided )

Hope that helps

On Feb 5, 9:53 am, Syntax <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would REALLY like to be able to define my members as final; however
> as noted on the GWT serialization page:
> - Fields that are declared final are also not exchanged during RPCs,
> so they should generally be marked transient as well.
>
> I was wondering why final fields are not transferred? I can only
> imagine that when the instance is created server side it uses the no-
> args constructor and reflection to set the values?
>
> I find it quite annoying that I am required to enter a no args
> constructor, surely the RPC generator can just manually add and empty
> no args constructor if none already exists?
>
> One suggestion from a colleague was to add support for the
> @ConstructorProperties annotation to GWT serialization classes, so
> that the GWT serialization back end calls the constructor with
> arguments and matches field names with the annotation values. Has
> anyone considered this?

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