GWTP - Am I using it correctly for secured and unsecured areas?

Question

I am trying to do a transition to GWTP with my already existing application. However, I am having some troubles figuring out how to have a secured and an unsecured area for it.

The case is simple: I am having a landing page and an admin page which both have entirely different skeletons (menu, side nav, main content, etc.).

To make it simpler, these are my current module implementations:

What I am actually having in my ApplicationView UiBinder is this:

which is a public static UI field of ApplicationView:

public static @UiField SimplePanel mainContentWrapper;

What I do now is setting the actual content inside of the onReveal() method of the two presenter AdminToolPresenter and LangingPresenter like this:

@Inject
AdminToolPresenter(EventBus eventBus, MyView view, MyProxy proxy) {
    super(eventBus, view, proxy, ApplicationPresenter.SLOT_AdminMainContent);
}

@Override
protected void onReveal() {
    super.onReveal();
    ApplicationView.mainContentWrapper.setWidget(this.getView());
}

and

@Inject
LandingPresenter(EventBus eventBus, MyView view, MyProxy proxy) {
    super(eventBus, view, proxy, ApplicationPresenter.SLOT_LandingMainContent);
}

@Override
protected void onReveal() {
    super.onReveal();
    ApplicationView.mainContentWrapper.setWidget(this.getView());
}

Please note how I bind ApplicationPresenter.SLOT_AdminMainContent and ApplicationPresenter.SLOT_LandingMainContent respectively.

Since GWTP is actually a pretty smart tool I want to make sure that I am using it correctly.

Therefore I'd like to know if I do this the way it is intended to be or if GWTP actually provides a smarter solution to this problem?

This question rises especially since I am not sure yet how navigation is actually going to be handled.

Answer 1

There is no need to call ApplicationView.mainContentWrapper.setWidget(this.getView()) in your onReveal method.
GWTP should take care of that either by using bindSlot(ApplicationPresenter.SLOT_LandingMainContent, mainContentWrapper) in your ApplicationView constrcutor or by overriding the setInSlot or addToSlot method in your ApplicationView. (see the SLOTS documentation)

You will also want to use a Gatekeeper to secure your AdminToolPresenter.