ValuesManager.getValue()

[jpappalardo]

Migrating from SmartGWT 4.1 to SmartGWT 6.0
GWT 2.8.0-beta1

I have some code that sets a value on a ValuesManager that is a JsArray.
I used to be able cast the Object returned from ValuesManager.getValue in the following way

Object o = valuesManager.getValue(arrayName);
if(o != null)
     JsArray array = ((JavaScriptObject) o).cast();

However after migrating to SmartGWT 6.0 I get a ClassCastException and in order to avoid this exception I am required to use the following code

Object[] objects = (Object[]) valuesManager.getValue(arrayName);
if(objects != null) {
     JsArray array = JavaScriptObject.createArray().cast();
     for(Object object : objects)
          array.push((JavaScriptObject) object);
}

Is this change by design? It is rather painful to have to convert from Object[] to JsArray and will have a large impact on our code. If even it would allow being cast as JavaScriptObject[] it would be simpler to handle this issue, but attempting to do so also causes a ClassCastException.

[Isomorphic]

No, this doesn't look to be a by-design change.

Does this happen if you use a non-beta version of GWT?

Is it only in certain modes (eg only classic DevMode)?

What's in the JSArray? Complete code for construction and round-tripping through the ValuesManager would be clearest.

[jpappalardo]

This happens both as compiled javascript and in super dev mode. The data is JSO wrapper for data delivered from the server from a datasource. In this partiuclar instance it is a table of country codes.

     public class CountryCodeWrapper extends JavaScriptObject implements CountryCodeLookup
{
    protected CountryCodeWrapper()
    {
    }

    @Override
    @UnsafeNativeLong
    public final native long getId() /*-{
        return this.id;
     }-*/;

    public final native Long getIdAsLong() /*-{
        return this.id == undefined ? null : @java.lang.Long::valueOf(Ljava/lang/String;)(this.id.toString());
    }-*/;

    @Override
    @UnsafeNativeLong
    public final native void setId(long id) /*-{
        this.id = id;
     }-*/;

    @Override
    public final native String getCode() /*-{
        return this.code;
     }-*/;

    @Override
    public final native void setCode(String code) /*-{
        this.code = code;
     }-*/;

    @Override
    public final native String getCountryName() /*-{
        return this.countryName;
     }-*/;

    @Override
    public final native void setCountryName(String countryName) /*-{
        this.countryName = countryName;
     }-*/;

    @Override
    public final native boolean isDefaultLookup() /*-{
        return this.defaultLookup;
     }-*/;

    @Override
    public final native void setDefaultLookup(boolean defaultLookup) /*-{
        this.defaultLookup = defaultLookup;
     }-*/;

    public final CountryCodeWrapper copy() {
        CountryCodeWrapper copy = CountryCodeWrapper.createObject().cast();
        copy.setId(getId());
        copy.setCode(getCode());
        copy.setCountryName(getCountryName());
        copy.setDefaultLookup(isDefaultLookup());
        return copy;
    }
}

I cannot speak to whether this behavior is similar with other versions of GWT because part of our project will only compile with GWT 2.8

[Isomorphic]

You don't appear to have given us a standalone test case, as is outlined in the Debugging Overview, or the details requested above - the "complete code for construction and round-tripping through the ValuesManager." At a minimum, we'd like to see the code setting the value(s) that you want to get back as a JSArray.