GWT app crashes in run-time when RequestContext interface is used in client code

[expert]

I've been fighting with this issue for 3 days and I guess this forum
is my last resort. I ran out of ideas why it doesn't work :( I'm using
GWT 2.4.0 and JDK 1.6.

I was going through this http://goo.gl/mmFuQ tutorial and got stuck
with crashing GWT app. The app crashes if I mention
com.google.web.bindery.requestfactory.shared.RequestContext interface
in my client code. I'm not even using it. I just have unused method
that takes RequestContext as parameter. I tried referencing
RequestFactory - same exception. So I suspect I'm missing something
related to RequestFactory package. I added -logLevel DEBUG to GWT
compiler and here is what I have:

-----------
DEBUG: Rebinding
com.vsezavtra.courierApp.client.ManagerShell.ManagerShellUiBinder.
DEBUG: Checking rule <generate-with
class='com.google.web.bindery.requestfactory.gwt.rebind.RequestFactoryGenerator'/
>.
ERROR: Errors in 'jar:file:/C:/work/externals/gwt/gwt-user.jar!/
com/google/web/bindery/requestfactory/shared/Receiver.java'.
ERROR: Unable to find type
'com.vsezavtra.courierApp.client.ManagerShell.ManagerShellUiBinder'.
ERROR: Line 26: The import javax.validation.ConstraintViolation
cannot be resolved.
ERROR: Line 79: ConstraintViolation cannot be resolved to a
type.
ERROR: Line 81: ConstraintViolation cannot be resolved to a
type.
ERROR: Hint: Previous compiler errors may have made this type
unavailable.
ERROR: Hint: Check the inheritance chain from your module; it
may not be inheriting a required module or a module may not be adding
its source path entries properly.
ERROR: Deferred binding failed for
'com.vsezavtra.courierApp.client.ManagerShell.ManagerShellUiBinder';
expect subsequent failures.
ERROR: Unable to load module entry point class
com.vsezavtra.courierApp.client.courierApp (see associated exception
for details). java.lang.RuntimeException: Deferred binding failed for
'com.vsezavtra.courierApp.client.ManagerShell
$ManagerShellUiBinder' (did you forget to inherit a required module?)
at
com.google.gwt.dev.shell.GWTBridgeImpl.create(GWTBridgeImpl.java:53)
at com.google.gwt.core.client.GWT.create(GWT.java:97)
at
com.vsezavtra.courierApp.client.ManagerShell.<clinit>(ManagerShell.java:
15)
at
com.vsezavtra.courierApp.client.courierApp.onModuleLoad(courierApp.java:
10)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:
39)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:
25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.ModuleSpace.onLoad(ModuleSpace.java:
396)
at
com.google.gwt.dev.shell.OophmSessionHandler.loadModule(OophmSessionHandler.java:
200)
at
com.google.gwt.dev.shell.BrowserChannelServer.processConnection(BrowserChannelServer.java:
525)
at
com.google.gwt.dev.shell.BrowserChannelServer.run(BrowserChannelServer.java:
363)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Caused by: com.google.gwt.core.ext.UnableToCompleteException: (see
previous log entries)
at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.ModuleSpace.rebind(ModuleSpace.java:
595)
at
com.google.gwt.dev.shell.ModuleSpace.rebindAndCreate(ModuleSpace.java:
455)
at
com.google.gwt.dev.shell.GWTBridgeImpl.create(GWTBridgeImpl.java:49)
at com.google.gwt.core.client.GWT.create(GWT.java:97)
at
com.vsezavtra.courierApp.client.ManagerShell.<clinit>(ManagerShell.java:
15)
at
com.vsezavtra.courierApp.client.courierApp.onModuleLoad(courierApp.java:
10)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:
39)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:
25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.ModuleSpace.onLoad(ModuleSpace.java:
396)
at
com.google.gwt.dev.shell.OophmSessionHandler.loadModule(OophmSessionHandler.java:
200)
at
com.google.gwt.dev.shell.BrowserChannelServer.processConnection(BrowserChannelServer.java:
525)
at
com.google.gwt.dev.shell.BrowserChannelServer.run(BrowserChannelServer.java:
363)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
ERROR: Failed to load module 'courierApp' from user agent 'Mozilla/5.0
(Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/
14.0.835.202 Safari/535.1' at localhost:10695.
-----------

Full log is available here: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=46aiBLME

Here is my GWT XML file:
-----------
<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC "-//Google Inc.//DTD Google Web Toolkit 2.0//
EN" "http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/releases/2.0/distro-
source/core/src/gwt-module.dtd">
<module rename-to="courierApp">
<inherits name='com.google.gwt.user.User'/>
<inherits
name="com.google.web.bindery.requestfactory.RequestFactory"/>

<source path="client"/>

<entry-point class='com.vsezavtra.courierApp.client.courierApp'/>
</module>
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Main entry-point class:
-----------
package com.vsezavtra.courierApp.client;

import com.google.gwt.core.client.EntryPoint;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.RootLayoutPanel;

public class courierApp implements EntryPoint
{
public void onModuleLoad()
{
RootLayoutPanel.get().add(new ManagerShell());
}
}
-----------

Bindable UI class
-----------
package com.vsezavtra.courierApp.client;

import com.google.gwt.core.client.GWT;
import com.google.gwt.uibinder.client.UiBinder;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.Composite;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.Widget;
import com.google.web.bindery.requestfactory.shared.RequestContext;

public class ManagerShell extends Composite
{
interface ManagerShellUiBinder extends UiBinder<Widget,
ManagerShell>
{
}

private static ManagerShellUiBinder uiBinder =
GWT.create(ManagerShellUiBinder.class);

public ManagerShell()
{
initWidget(uiBinder.createAndBindUi(this));
}
// if I remove this method everything works :(
public void SetTest(RequestContext test) {}
}
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and corresponding XML file
-----------
<ui:UiBinder xmlns:ui='urn:ui:com.google.gwt.uibinder'
xmlns:g='urn:import:com.google.gwt.user.client.ui'>
<g:VerticalPanel>
<g:HTMLPanel>
Test!
</g:HTMLPanel>
<g:HTMLPanel>
Test2!
</g:HTMLPanel>
</g:VerticalPanel>
</ui:UiBinder>
-----------


and finally my web.xml file has only root "web-app" element because I
have no server-side part (yet).

I'm using IntelliJ IDEA 10.5.2 to debug the app.

Please let me know if you have any additional question. I really don't
know what else I can do :(

[Steve Moyer]

I have the same problem with GWT 2.5 and Oracle JDK 7 ... did you ever resolve the issue?  The weird part is that this isn't my first RF-based project, yet I didn't run into this issue with the other projects.

Thanks

[Thomas Broyer]

On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 3:20:28 PM UTC+2, Steve Moyer wrote:

I have the same problem with GWT 2.5 and Oracle JDK 7 ... did you ever resolve the issue?  The weird part is that this isn't my first RF-based project, yet I didn't run into this issue with the other projects.

Are validation-api and validation-api-src on your classpath?

[Steve Moyer]

I thought they were ... I'm using Maven and didn't notice they were only in the test scope.  Problem solved (and with the same solution ruslan got from StackOverflow).

Thanks!