So I need to:
1) Add a Marshaller via TypeMarshallers to encode the date on the client.
2) Add a TypeHandler via TypeHandlerFactory to decode the serialized date on the client.
3) Add a TyperHandler via JSONEncoder to encode the date on the server.
4) Add a ConversionHandler via org.mvel2.DataConversion.addConversionHandler to decode the serialized date on the server.
Does that about cover it?
From: Mike Brock [mailto:cbrock@redhat.com]
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 1:39 PM
To: Kevin Jordan
Cc: errai-users@lists.jboss.org
Subject: Re: [errai-users] Adding Marshalling/Demarshalling handlers?
Really the best way to handle it, is with TypeHandlerFactory, which exposes addHandler();
So if you wanted to do what you're dong, you would implement a TypeHandler, that would say, convert a Number to DatePicker.
public class NumberToDatePicker<Number, DatePicker> {
public DatePicker getConverted(Number n) {
return new DatePicker(in.longValue());
And you would then add that to TypeHandlerFactory like so:
TypeHandlerFactory.addHandler(Number.class, DatePicker.class, new NumberToDatePicker());
This of course presumes that you have an TypeHandler on the server that converts DatePicker to a long, and you have an MVEL DataConverter on the server which converts back from long to DatePicker on the server -- yes, this is incongruent and requires some thought about how to unify this...
I have exposed a static method addEncodingHandler for JSONEncoder, so you can then add an encoding handler like so:
JSONEncoder.addEncodingHandler(DatePicker.class, new TypeHandler() { public Long getConverted(DatePicker picker) { return picker.getTime(); } });
You get the idea. You'll need to upgrade to trunk to get that working.
On 2010-02-05, at 11:49 AM, Kevin Jordan wrote:
Is there any easy way besides modifying JSONEncoder and TypeDemarshallHelper to add something to convert a type for sending/receiving over the wire? I’m wanting to do a subclass of Date for a DatePicker and want to serialize it a String so TimeZone conversions don’t need to happen on it since it’ll default to midnight for whatever the server timezone is. It seems as far as TypeDemarshallHelper, I can just do a static add to org.mvel2.DataConversion, but for JSONEncoder is doesn’t seem that easy since the handlers are added to a private Map. I assume on the client side, it’s as easy as adding a CustomFieldSerializer (http://code.google.com/p/wogwt/wiki/CustomFieldSerializer)?