Tuesday, September 13, 2011

A Complex-Layouting Library over mvp4g

Hello, mvp4g blog readers! shaman.sir is speaking.

With gratitude to Pierre, I am here to present you an mvp4g extention that will allow you to build a portlet-oriented web-applications with mvp4g.

To provide you with quick example, here's a running demo: http://gwt-mvp4g-layouting-demo.appspot.com/

And here's the short summary of documentation pages:

mvp4g framework helps in writing applications which has not a lot of significant changes happening in the inner page section or just with a central part that is /instantly/ replaced with a new content. I can’t say that it is a limitation of the framework — this situation may change in near future or, in fact, it is may be not so required for a lot of users — however, for the moment, this fact takes place and it was required for us in developing experika.


This library listens for every history event that happens in your application, finds what widgets layout to use for current page, and if it needs to rebuild the page, it rebuilds it and fills with new widgets (and if just part of page needs to be redrawn, it redraws only this concrete part). And only then it calls an appropriate navigation event. When you describe the layout, you just specify the placeholders for widgets, and there are special LayoutBuilders who fill the layout with widgets depending on current page and its state (it is true, support states like Loading/NothingFound/NoMatches/SomethingFound, you can easily switch them from inside the Presenters).


A library is in the stage of discovering final bugs and plans on improvement, so if you'll find a bug or want to offer some good idea, please issue it.

Here the links go:


Also, I need to mention people who helped me with this framework:
  • Vitaly Gashock, who introduced mvp4g to me and who gave me the idea to make "everything like portals" :).
  • Sergey Dyniovsky, who gave advices on how it will be easier to apply a CSS markup to resulting pages






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