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GWT request .with method

I'm sorry in advance if this rather n00bish question actually has an answer in the documentation which I've just failed to find, but

I'm still relatively new to GWT, and try as I might I can't find an explanation of what the request.with(String...) method actually does which I can understand. Please can someone explain to me in words of one sylable what this method does and why you'd use it?

thanks very much

Solution

  • It indeed is in the doc: https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideRequestFactory#relationships

    By default, entity proxies referenced from the entity proxy/ies you're fetching are not fetched (properties will simply be null on the client-side). You have to explicitly ask for them using with(), passing the name (can be a dotted path too) of the properties you want to fetch.