GWT in Action, Second Edition

18.8. Using your new generator

You want to use your generator on all widgets. To do that, you need to define the <generate-with> tag as follows:

<generate-with class="com.manning.rebind.MyGenerator">
   <when-type-assignable class="com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.Widget"/>
</generate-with>

But there’s a problem. Such a simple definition allows your generator to run on UiBinder code itself, and that unfortunately causes some issues. You won’t normally have this problem because it’s unlikely you’ll run a generator on widgets, but because you are, you have to exclude UiBinder code. You’ll also hit a conflict issue with the Logging window from GWT, so you need to exclude that too.

Luckily, these are easy to exclude by adding some conditionals in your ...