Converting a String to a Splittable in GWT

Question

I'm maintaining a site written in GWT (2.5.0) that is used internally by our development team, and I've been experimenting with using AutoBeans for client side json parsing. I have a few objects with json that is not well defined — a developer can dump whatever json string he wants in there — so I'm using a Splittable property. In order to support editing this arbitrary json I'd like to convert a String into a Splittable, but I haven't found a straight-forward way of accomplishing this. Do I need to implement this interface myself or resort to something hacky like wrapping the json in another json object I can then decode into a throw-away AutoBean just to get a Splittable of the original json?

Answer 1

StringQuoter is the utility class which we do much of our manual Splittable work with.

Just user StringQuoter.create("some string"); to produce a Splittable whose payload is

"some string"

Once you have that splittable, you can assign it to a key in another splittable with the following method:

Splittable.assign(Splittable parent, String propertyName);

However, if you are trying to convert some arbitrary string which contains a JSON structure into a splittable, use StringQuoter.split(..) to create it. The resulting splittable can be queried as normal (i.e. what keys exist/don't exist, etc).