Question

In my application I’ve got about a dozen places where I need to show a country suggest box. All the code of the suggest box(including the creation of a custom SuggestOracle, it’s initialization and various handlers) take up some ~100 lines of and copying it all over the project seems quite hardcore for me.
So I decided to write a custom CountrySuggestBox which extended SuggestBox wrapped in itself the construction of my custom SuggestOracle and did all the click/key handling stuff in itself. After this I was planning to just write something in the lines of @UiFiled(provided=true) CountrySuggestBox = new CountrySuggestBox(countryList); and be done with it. But for that I also need CountrySuggestBox to implement LeafValueEditor<Country> which i can’t do cause SuggestBox implements HasText and these interfaces do not “like” each other.

So how can I make CountrySuggestBox an editor of country types property without writing custom editor methods in the classes using it.

Answer 1

Prefer composition over inheritance.

Have CountrySuggestBox extend Composite (or simply implement IsWidget) and wrap the SuggestBox.
Then you can make it a LeafValueEditor<Country> or IsEditor<LeafValueEditor<Country>> (along with TakesValue<Country> or HasValue<Country>)