My bad - had left one of the subpanel widget's Editor.Paths at "" by
mistake. Fixed that and it worked fine. I'm not quite sure why that
resulted in the error that I saw, though ...
On Sunday, November 10, 2013 1:10:00 PM UTC-5, Steve C wrote:
>
> In trying Daniel's approach, I have a primary view class CompanyView
> implementing Editor<Company>. It has several child AddressView objects,
> which implement Editor<Address>; there are several Address fields in the
> Company. They get populated without my AddressView class ever invoking
> driver.edit or driver.flush (and I don't seem to need any set or getValue
> methods). But, that's just an aside.
>
> I then created a sub-editor PurchasingView also implementing
> Editor<Company>, since the related data is in single fields within Company,
> instead of a sub-object.
>
> @UiField @Editor.Path("")
> PurchasingView purchasingView;
>
> I assumed that the PurchasingView should define and GWT.create it's own
> driver interface, and that it's constructor should initialize that driver.
>
> When the time comes to edit the Company in the outer view in DevMode, or
> when I compile, I get the following error:
>
> Type mismatch: cannot convert from Company to String
>
> It refers me to some generated code, which begins with:
>
> public class PurchasingView__Context extends
> com.google.gwt.editor.client.impl.AbstractEditorContext<java.lang.String> {
>
> And, as you might imagine, the methods it contains relate to String, not
> Company.
>
> I don't currently have get/setValue, but tried those as well, assuming
> that getValue ought to return driver.flush(), and setValue(Company value)
> ought to do driver.edit(value) - needless to say, that didn't help
>
> What am I missing here to get it to recognize that it should be editing a
> Company, not a String?
>
>
> On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 12:17:06 PM UTC-4, Thomas Broyer wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 5:49:56 PM UTC+2, saurabh saurabh wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I don't have much experience with Editor frameworks so this question
>>> may appear naive or dumb.
>>>
>>> So suppose we have a big bean or proxy having a many fields. A good
>>> idea in view part could be having group them under TabLayoutPanel
>>> otherwise a big form on a page may not appear user friendly.
>>>
>>> Example:
>>> Patient Registration Form
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> ||Personal Details || Patient Habbits || Family History || Medical
>>> History || Insurance || |
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> |
>>> |
>>> |
>>> |
>>> |
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Here I feel comfortable to have five different UI like detailsView,
>>> habbitsView and so on and having them under one composite but all of
>>> 'em are concerned to one Class Patient.
>>>
>>> So my question is how I can wire multiple Editors to same bean, each
>>> for different set of properties.
>>>
>>> I don't find much on net for Editors, I guess it could be
>>> CompositeEditors, but I need some help for how to do it.
>>
>>
>> See
>> https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideUiEditors#Very_large_objects
>> (and
>> note that you can use @Path("") to have a subeditor for the same object as
>> is being edited).
>>
>> Alternatively, you can use several EditorDrivers on the same object;
>> you'd just have to make sure they don't step on each others (that is, you
>> don't edit the same field in two distinct EditorDrivers). The only
>> difference is that you can edit() the object only when needed (e.g. when
>> the tab is first revealed), but you'll have to flush() all the drivers that
>> you called edit() on before saving your object, or you risk losing data
>> (not persisting changes made by the user).
>>
>
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