Why no GWT for Calendar API?

[Jeffrey Chimene]

Hi:

I might have a use case for a GWT binding for the Calendar API. Is it
not there or am I missing something?

Cheers,
jec

[Jim Douglas]

With 328 stars, it's the most popular open issue:

http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=603

[Jeffrey Chimene]

On 7/7/2011 8:38 PM, Jim Douglas wrote:
> With 328 stars, it's the most popular open issue:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=603

Thanks, but I'm asking about a GWT binding for the Google Calendar API,
not j.u.Calendar.

Cheers,
jec

[Jim Douglas]

Hmm, ok. Well, I see that the request was closed as "not planned":

http://code.google.com/p/gwt-google-apis/issues/detail?id=157

And this response from 2008 suggests working with the Java API on the
server or the JavaScript API on the client:

http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit/browse_thread/thread/1c8e9ef01528a9f0

I wouldn't want to try to work out the JSNI bindings for that, though.

[Jeffrey Chimene]

On 7/8/2011 7:47 AM, Jim Douglas wrote:
> Hmm, ok. Well, I see that the request was closed as "not planned":
>
> http://code.google.com/p/gwt-google-apis/issues/detail?id=157
>
> And this response from 2008 suggests working with the Java API on the
> server or the JavaScript API on the client:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit/browse_thread/thread/1c8e9ef01528a9f0
>
> I wouldn't want to try to work out the JSNI bindings for that, though.

Thank-you for the search-fu! I'd considered the javascript solution, but
it's the older API. This is an interesting discontinuity in the solution
space.

Cheers,
jec

[zundel]

There is a third party binding to the GData api for calendar:  http://code.google.com/p/gwt-gdata/

[Thomas Broyer]

You don't need JSNI, there's a JsDate class.

Also, have a look at GodaTime, or JodaTime-GWT. The JodaTime is much cleaner and easier to use, and close to what's coming to Java 8 (JSR-310, alpha code at threeten.sourceforge.net)