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brakebg
brakebg

Reputation: 414

Singleton in GWT project

Could some explain me something. Here is some scenario.

Let assume i have a class template and use Gin/Guice in the app.

@Singleton
public class Template extends Compose
{
private HorizontalPanel header;
private HorizontalPanel content;
private VerticalPanel menu;

    public Template()
    {
      this.add(initHeader());
      this.add(initMenu());
      this.add(initContent());
    }

    public void setContent(Widget widget)
    {
      content.clear();
      content.add(widget);
    }
    .............
    ......
    }

and in the entry class

........
public void onModuleLoad()
{

RootPanel.get().add(new Template());
....
}

Every time i need to reload the content i do..

For example

HorizontalPanel hp = new HorizontalPanel();
hp.add ....
...

Template template = injector.getTemplate(); // return singleton instance using gin
template.setContent(hp)

and so on..

So, Template is singleton and as far as i know singleton instance is one per VM meaning shared by entire application, right? Template class has header, menu and content, the idea is to reload only the content part as cleaning and adding widgets. But is this a good approach?

For example, could we have a situation like user "A" setContent(widgetA) ,but in the same time user "B" use method setContent(widgetB) ,so what is going to happen here?

Thanks, if anyone could share with me a good approach eventually and comment that one.

Regards

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7220

Answers (3)

beastieboy
beastieboy

Reputation: 91

I have injected the class with common RPC code for our app. Here's how:

@Singleton
public class SomeService {

/** The real service. */
private static final RealServiceAsync realService;

...

}

Our Gin module:

public class MyGinModule extends AbstractGinModule {

    @Override
    protected void configure() {
        bind( SomeService .class ).in(Singleton.class);
        ...
        ...
    }

}

And it's injected as singleton as follows:

public class ApplicationInfoPresenter {

@Inject
private SomeService service;

...
...

}

Upvotes: 1

Thomas Broyer
Thomas Broyer

Reputation: 64541

@Singleton is scoped to the Ginjector instance (yes, if you GWT.create() your GInjector twice, you'll get two "singletons"). There's no single mean GIN can somehow "intercept" your new Template() in onModuleLoad, so injector.getTemplate() will return a distinct template instance. (this is totally different from the "singleton code anti-pattern" that Stein talks about, using static state)

There's no magic: GIN is a code generator, it only writes code that you could have typed by hand.

As for your other questions:

  • You client code obviously run on the client, i.e. on the browser. There's one "application instance" per browser tab/window displaying your app. There's no "user A" and "user B" at the same time.
  • JavaScript is single-threaded, so you don't have to fear for concurrent accesses either.

Upvotes: 12

Stein G. Strindhaug
Stein G. Strindhaug

Reputation: 5119

I'm pretty sure the annotation is ignored by the GWT compiler.

When I need a Singleton in gwt i just create a class with a private/protected constructor, and a private static NameOfSingletonClass instance; and a getInstance() method that initializes the instance if null and returns the instance.

Upvotes: 0

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