After hours of GWT and Errai code debugging I've found what I think it is a Bug in the code.
I was trying to use ListWidget to create and paint <TR> like items... and trying to find out what fails in this kind of code, I arrived to TemplateUtil class where in the method:
private static Element firstNonMetaElement(final Element parserDiv) {
Element displayable = parserDiv.getFirstChildElement();
while (displayable != null && displayable.getTagName().equalsIgnoreCase("meta")) {
displayable = displayable.getNextSiblingElement();
}
return displayable;
}
We are using the Element objects "getFirstChildElement" method which has this code:
/**
* The first child of element this element. If there is no such element, this
* returns null.
*/
public final Element getFirstChildElement() {
return DOMImpl.impl.getFirstChildElement(this);
}
And finally uses this native method:
public native Element getFirstChildElement(Element elem) /*-{
var child = elem.firstChild;
while (child && child.nodeType != 1)
child = child.nextSibling;
return child;
}-*/;
What I see in this method is that the code is using firstChild which is not a Element type object... It is a Text Object.
So if what I think it's true child.nodeType will never return a 1... cause never is going to be a Element type object. It will retun a 3 and will keep looking for "siblings" till child is null.
This way it is not returning the firstChildElement to the TemplateUtil making it fail.
This is a resume of what I found, I'd love someone to confirm my theory or tell me what did I undestand wrong.
