Recursive Editors

[Jeff Larsen]

I'm trying to build an editor where it can have a collection of itself.

For example, I have an object Foo

class Foo{
    String foo;

    List<Foo> foos;

//getters setters ommited for brevity
}

I've tried making FooEditor implement Editor<Foo> and CompositeEditor<Foo, Foo, FooEditor>, but then when I do GWT.create(Driver.class) I break the heap.

I what is the "correct" way of doing recursive editors with collections?

Thanks

[Gal Dolber]

to avoid the infinite loop of instantiation, you need to instantiate
the child editor under demand, only when needed

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[Thomas Broyer]

You need a subeditor for the foos. I.e. have FooEditor (implements Editor<Foo>) contain a subeditor for @Path("foos"), of type CompositeEditor<List<Foo>, Foo, FooEditor> (or ListEditor<Foo, FooEditor>).

[Jeff Larsen]

Thanks Thomas and Gal.  Now I'm getting. 

[ERROR] [editorsampleproject] - Cycle detected in editor graph. Editor type com.google.gwt.editor.client.adapters.ListEditor at path foos can be reached again at path foos..foos

I'm probably just going to abandon this and just manually get/set the objects. It isn't that much work since the object is recursive. I could've written it by hand a long time ago, but thought this was a good deep dive into editors. 

Seperate question because I know I'm going to need this in the future somewhere. How do you implement an editor on a Set?