How to use Resource bundle(Client Bundle) in JSNI? - css

I am trying to use client bundle of css resource in JSNI but couldn't find any helpful code.
I want to know how to call css resource in JSNI and how exaclty to use client bundle in JSNI.
My Normal code:--
Resource.INSTANCE.button().ensureInjected();
Resource res = GWT.create(Resource.class);
button.setStyleName(res.button().gwtbutton());
How to write in jsni?
Here Resource----> is interface extend clientbundle.
gwtbutton ---> is css.
I have read in this link https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-web-toolkit/94v4tjCZiBo that we can use the CssResource through jsni. But I'm unclear about his usage its syntax.

There's no magic here (OK, there is a bit, but behind the scenes). Your Resource interface's implementation is automatically generated by GWT, so when you call res.button().gwtbutton(), it will return a proper name for the style you are referencing from a CSS file. This name could be obfuscated, with a prefix, etc. It doesn't matter to you - in the end it's just a string, a style's name. Just pass it as a String to your JSNI method:
public native void addStyle(String style) /*-{
// Add style to a DOM element
}-*/;
// Invoke like so:
addStyle(res.button().gwtbutton());
If you want to use your ClientBundle directly in JSNI code:
// First, get Resource instance from a static field
var resource = #package.Resource::INSTANCE;
// Then, get the CssResource with the style
var button = resource.#package.Resource::button()();
// Finally, get the style's name
var gwtButton = button.#package.Button::gwtButton()();
Substitute package.Resource for the proper qualified name (package + class name) of the Resource interface. Use the code completion offered by Google Plugin for Eclipse if needed. Do the same for the type returned by the button method (it's probably some interface extending CssResource).
If you are troubled by the syntax, please dig through the documentation or look into some tutorials on Java Native Interface - it shares a lot of similarities with JSNI and might be better documented.

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Groovy mixin on Spring-MVC controller

I'm trying to use Groovy mixin transformation on a spring-mvc controller class but Spring does not pickup the request mapping from the mixed in class.
class Reporter {
#RequestMapping("report")
public String doReport() {
"report"
}
}
#Mixin(Reporter)
#Controller
#RequestMapping("/a")
class AController {
#RequestMapping("b")
public String doB() {
"b"
}
}
When this code is run .../a/b url is mapped and works but .../a/report is not mapped and returns HTTP 404. In debug mode, I can access doReport method on AController by duck typing.
This type of request mapping inheritance actually works with Java classes when extends is used; so why it does not work with Groovy's mixin? I'm guessing it's either that mixin transformation does not transfer annotations on the method or that spring's component scanner works before the mixin is processed. Either way, is there a groovier way to achieve this functionality (I don't want AController to extend Reporter for other reasons, so that's not an option) ?
You can find below the responses I got from Guillaume Laforge (Groovy project manager) in Groovy users mailing list.
Hi,
I haven't looked at Spring MVC's implementation, but I suspect that
it's using reflection to find the available methods. And "mixin"
adding methods dynamically, it's not something that's visible through
reflection.
We've had problems with #Mixin over the years, and it's implementation
is far from ideal and bug-ridden despite our efforts to fix it. It's
likely we're going to deprecate it soon, and introduce something like
static mixins or traits, which would then add methods "for real" in
the class, which means such methods like doReport() would be seen by a
framework like Spring MVC.
There are a couple initiatives in that area already, like a prototype
branch from Cédric and also something in Grails which does essentially
that (ie. adding "real" methods through an AST transformation).
Although no firm decision has been made there, it's something we'd
like to investigate and provide soon.
Now back to your question, perhaps you could investigate using
#Delegate? You'd add an #Delegate Reporter reporter property in your
controller class. I don't remember if #Delegate carries the
annotation, I haven't double checked, but if it does, that might be a
good solution for you in the short term.
Guillaume
Using the #Delegate transformation did not work on its own, so I needed another suggestion.
One more try... I recalled us speaking about carrying annotations for
delegated methods... and we actually did implement that already. It's
not on by default, so you have to activate it with a parameter for the
#Delegate annotation:
http://groovy.codehaus.org/gapi/groovy/lang/Delegate.html#methodAnnotations
Could you please try with #Delegate(methodAnnotations = true) ?
And the actual solution is:
class Reporter {
#RequestMapping("report")
public String doReport() {
"report"
}
}
#Controller
#RequestMapping("/a")
class AController {
#Delegate(methodAnnotations = true) private Reporter = new Reporter
#RequestMapping("b")
public String doB() {
"b"
}
}
When you map requests with annotations, what happens is that once the container is started, it scans the classpath, looks for annotated classes and methods, and builds the map internally, instead of you manually writing the deployment descriptor.
The scanner reads methods and annotations from the compiled .class files. Maybe Groovy mixins are implemented in such a way that they are resolved at runtime, so the scanner software can't find them in the compiled bytecode.
To solve this problem, you have to find a way to statically mixin code at compile time, so that the annotated method is actually written to the class file.

Dynamic CSS class names in GWT

I am in the process of porting a simple CSS grid system to GWT. My CSS file currently has classes like .size1, .size2 etc., and I have a CSS resource that looks like -
interface MyResource extends CSSResource {
#ClassName("size1")
String size1();
#ClassName("size2")
String size2();
// And so on
}
However what I really want, is to have a single function like the following -
String size(int size);
which will generate the appropriate class when passed the size as an integer at runtime. This is needed as I perform some calculations to determine the actual space available/needed for a widget in javascript and then attach the appropriate class name.
Is this something that is even possible with GWT?
Edit: To clarify, I can easily write such a method myself like so -
String size(int size) {
switch(size) {
case 1: return size1();
case 2: return size2();
... and so on
}
}
However MyResource is an interface and its implementation is generated at runtime by GWT. This means I cannot add my size method to the MyResource type. So I guess I am asking for a way to add custom methods to the MyResource class.
I think you should not try to solve this via css files, but if you want to have dynamic values in your style you should set those values in code via myWidget.getElement().getStyle().setSomeCssMethod(). Or in this case you seem to want to set size, as in height and width. For most widgets those values can be set directly. Unless I'm missing something, why do you want to use css classes and not set it directly in code?
You can't pass method names to the CSSResource.
Remember that CSSResource's purpose is to minify and obfuscate the CSS class names.
However, just because CSS Resource can do this, doesn't mean you have to use it for all you code.
For example you already know that the CSS Resource methods return a string, so just create your own method that returns a string (your dynamic class names) and to load your CSS use the #CssResource.NotStrict annotation when adding it to your resource.

Using embedded WebResources throughout Webresource.axd

The question's simple: how could one use embedded resources in asp.net applications? What are the steps to include a resource in the assembly, and how to reference it? What are the gotchas that could be encountered?
Edit: For a version without referencing Page and ClientScript, see What is the right way to handle Embedded Resources on a Razor View?
After spending a half of a day I've learned these:
to embed a resource one needs to set it's Build Action to Embedded Resource (in VS Solution Explorer rightclick the file -> Properties)
next AsssemblyInfo.vb must be modified to make this resources available for WebResource queries. Add [Assembly: System.Web.UI.WebResource("MyWebResourceProj.Test.css", "text/css")] to AssemblyInfo.vb located in MyProject folder of the project.
The name consists of root namespace/assembly name +'.'+filename. To be 100% sure of the name, use the following code snippet to look it up:
Dim resNames = Assembly.LoadFile("YourDll.dll").GetManifestResourceNames()
Note that the assembly's Root Namespace must be the same as the Assembly Name (this took me about 4 hours to realize. At least with .Net v4 that is the case)
If there are references inside the css ( <%=WebResource("NS.image.jpg")%> ) than pass PerformSubstitution:=true for that css's WebResource attribute.
Referencing the resource can be done with Page.ClientScript.GetWebResourceUrl(GetType(MyWebResourceProj.ConssumingPage), "MyWebResourceProj.Test.css")
Note that instead of GetType(Typename) one could use Me.GetType(), but again, that won't work if the class is inherited, so beware!
Resources:
Debugging ASP.NET 2.0 Web Resources: Decrypting the URL and Getting the Resource Name
Using embedded resources through WebResource.axd is a pain in the neck, as you can see from your own answer. You have to keep assemblyinfo.vb|cs in sync, and it always seems damn near impossible to get all the namespace & assembly names right in all the right places.
When you finally get it to work, your reward is an include script line that that looks like a core memory dump.
I suggest an alternative. Write yourself a very simple web handler (e.g. MyResourceLoader.ashx. Then add a method to your class that simply serves it's own embedded resources, in whatever way you think is meaningful. You can use reflection to get the classes, like WebResource does, or just hardcode whatever you need into your loader, if it's just for a specific purpose. A public method in your class might look like:
public static Stream GetResource(string resourceName) {
// get the resource from myself, which is easy and doesn't require
// anything in assemblyinfo, and return it as a stream. As a bonus,
// you can parse it dynamically or even return things that aren't
// just embedded, but generated completely in code!
}
Or if you decide to make something more general purpose, you can get all fancy and return more data using a class, e.g.
class ResourceInfo
{
public Stream Data;
public string MimeType;
public string FileName;
}
Now you have the ability to serve up your embedded resources any way you want, e.g.
<script language="javascript" src="/MyResourceLoader.ashx/MyControlScript.js">
I think MS made a mess of that WebResource business. Luckily its' pretty straightforward to do your own thing.

Setting the WebServiceWrapper endpointURI at run time

I'm in the middle of switching from Flex Builder 3 to Flash Builder 4, and one of the problems I have run into is that support for web services in 4 is substantially different. In both IDE's I am able to import a WSDL for my web service and it will generate the appropriate client classes for communicating with the service. The generated code in each is different.
In my Flex3 code I was able to access the endpointURI property of the mx.rpc.soap.AbstractWebService, but in the Flex4 code that is generated, the new class extends com.adobe.fiber.services.wrapper.WebServiceWrapper which does not have the endpointURI property.
My project has mulitple game servers and the player picks which server they want to play on. In the past if the player wanted server 1, I would set the endpoint URI to http://game1.server.com/service.asmx, and like wise if they wanted server 2 I would set the endpoint to http://game2.server.com/service.asmx.
What am I looking for to accomplish this in Flash Builder 4?
Short Answer:
var s:ClassThatExtendsWebServiceWrapper = new ClassThatExtendsWebServiceWrapper;
s.serviceControl.endpointURI = 'http://service.com/service.asmx';
Long Answer:
Well I finally found a solution. Adobe seems to have made this much harder than it should have been.
Web Service classes that are generated by Flash Builder 4 extend the com.adobe.fiber.services.wrapper.WebServiceWrapper. WebServiceWrapper has a property called serviceControl that can be used to control the service. The problem is that not all the members of serviceControl are accessible at the application code level. Lets assume that I have a web service called GameService. When I use the data tool to connect to the web service by providing a WSDL, Flash Builder will create two classes for me automcatically.
internal class _Super_GameService extends
com.adobe.fiber.services.wrapper.WebServiceWrapper
{ ... }
public class GameService extends _Super_GameService
{}
_Super_GameService contains all the automatically generated code to make calls to the web service. GameService contains no code itself, but unlike _Super_GameService, it is public. The idea here is that any enhancements that we need to make can be made to GameService, then later on if we need to update, _Super_GameService can be regenerated, but out changes to GameService will not be overwritten by the code generation tool.
Now this leads us to usage of these generated classes. Typically all I should have to do is create an instance of GameService and call a method on it. In this example DoSomethingAwesome is a method available on the web service.
var gs:GameService = new GameService();
var token:AsyncToken = gs.DoSomethingAwesome();
Now this will call the service using the URI of the service specified in the WSDL file. In my situation I wanted GameService to connect to a different URI. This should have been simple, but things fell apart.
My first problem was that viewing the documentation on WebServiceWrapper (http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/com/adobe/fiber/services/wrapper/WebServiceWrapper.html) did not render properly in Firefox. So when I was reading the documentation I wasn't getting the full picture. This really needs to be fixed by Adobe.
Viewing the documentation in another browser helped me find out about the serviceControl property of WebServiceWrapper. serviceControl is declared as a mx.rpc.soap.AbstractWebService. AbstractWebService does have an endpointURI property which makes the following code valid.
var gs:GameService = new GameService();
gs.serviceControl.endpointURI = 'http://game1.service.com/GameService.asmx';
The other problem I had is that for some reason the endpointURI property of serviceControl does not appear in the Intellisense context menu. So since I didn't see serviceControl in the online documentation at first, and I didn't see endpointURI in intellisense, I didn't realize the property was there to be set.
If you look at the source for AbstractWebserivce, (http://opensource.adobe.com/svn/opensource/flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/rpc/src/mx/rpc/soap/AbstractWebService.as) there doesn't seem to be an Exclude tag to explain why endpointURI does not appear in the Intellisense context menu. So I don't know what is going on there.
You should be able to override the endpointURI on the WebService. But I'm not sure where to do that with the generated code since I use <s:WebService/>.
This is the only way I could get it to work, in the generated stub for your service:
import com.adobe.fiber.core.model_internal;
Also:
/**
* Override super.init() to provide any initialization customization if needed.
*/
protected override function preInitializeService():void
{
_needWSDLLoad = false; // to prevent loading the default WSDL
super.preInitializeService();
// Initialization customization goes here
wsdl = "http://localhost/yourservice?wsdl";
_needWSDLLoad = true;
model_internal::loadWSDLIfNecessary();

ActionScript Interfaces with custom namespaces

Is there any way to get interface to play along with custom namespace? Example follows.
IHeaderRenderer.as:
public interface IHeaderRenderer{
function set header(value:IHeader):void;
function get header():IHeader;
}
HeaderRenderer.as
import fi.test.internalNamespace;
public class HeaderRenderer implements IHeaderRenderer{
internalNamespace function set header(value:IHeader):void{
// do something
}
internalNamespace function get header():IHeader{
// do something
}
}
This gives you the basic compiler error:
1044: Interface method get header in namespace fi.gridutils.headerrenderers:IHeaderRenderer not implemented by class fi.gridutils.headerrenderers.implementation:HeaderRenderer.
Why is this needed, you might ask. I'm developing a component, where the header accessors should not be directly visible to the components end user (developer), but if the developer wants to create his own Renderer he should know that they are needed. This is because the parent component will use these accessors to give the custom renderer the data it needs to render the header correctly.
Now to my mind there seems to be only three choices:
1) use public access control. This has the setback that the end developer will see accessors, which should not be directly accessed by him. Plus they add unnecessary clutter as they appear in auto-complete.
2) do not use interface. This means the end user has pretty poor options of developing the component further.
3) use the interface, but omit the accessors that use internalNamespace. Now the end developer will not know that he should add also header accessors to his custom headerrenderer class, which ends up in Flash Player giving following error to the developer in runtime:
Cannot create property internalNamespace/::header on fi.gridutils.headerrenderers.implementation.HeaderRenderer.
Sorry for all the blabbing. Any cunning ideas how this kind of situation could be handled?
In ActionScript, the interface methods need to be public. What good is an interface, if you can't guarantee the component using it can access the relevant interface methods?
that said, you can use the exclude metadata to prevent properties from showing up in code hinting.
Something like this:
[Exclude(name="header", kind="property")]
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