Re: BUILD rule for GwtArchive

[S. DG]

Hi ,

I am facing a problem in regards to genrule for GWT on GAE .

I am very new to this and I am creating out a GWT project on GAE from scratch.

I might sound very noob, but cant help. I am in a learning stage right now .

The problem what I am facing is in BUILD file DeployArchive which looks like this : 

DeployArchive(

    name = "gaedeploy",

    out = "war",

    archives = [["",["GaeExampleAppStatic"]]],

...

)

The blaze build i always complaining for missing genrule in BUILD file when I am including the GaeExampleAppStatic which looks like this : 

GwtArchive(

    name = 'GaeExampleAppStatic',

    app  = ':gwtApp')

where gwtApp is the GWT application target.

I know the below questions might not help Dan exactly to get his answers but I might end up in Dan's phase above when I am through the genrule .

Question 1: Why do we need a genrule here. As in why is it compulsory(Because if I remove the archives params, the application gets built just fine )?

Question 2: Even if i need a genrule. What should I write in that rule that will help archive my GWT app to GAE deploy war. 

Am not using any jdo right now.I will probably be using JPA on hibernate to Speckle.

Please let me know if any of you need any more information/s.

Thanks+Regards

On Thursday, 27 September 2012 04:13:48 UTC+5:30, Dan Cheng wrote:

Hi, GWT gurus,

We are trying to export a GWT package in closure environment, we already have the package ready in jar or zip format.

But how can we unzip it into files (including js and css) and used by closure code?

we have sth like

GwtArchive(name='mymodulejar',
          app = '//my/path:MyApp'
        )

JS_PATH = 'my/javascript/path'

genrule(name='mymodule',
        srcs=[':mymodulejar'],
          cmd='mkdir -p ' + JS_PATH + ' && unzip -j $(location :mymodulejar) -d ' + JS_PATH
       )

But I cannot get the files in the jar. These include js file and css file.
Any pointer are appreciated, thanks!
Dan