#8504 Support passing Connector references to/from client

3 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/src/com/vaadin/terminal/gwt/client/communication/JsonDecoder.java b/src/com/vaadin/terminal/gwt/client/communication/JsonDecoder.java
index 0eaa106b43..33a415a91d 100644
--- a/src/com/vaadin/terminal/gwt/client/communication/JsonDecoder.java
+++ b/src/com/vaadin/terminal/gwt/client/communication/JsonDecoder.java
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ import com.google.gwt.json.client.JSONArray;
 import com.google.gwt.json.client.JSONObject;
 import com.google.gwt.json.client.JSONString;
 import com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.client.ApplicationConnection;
-import com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.client.ServerConnector;
 import com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.client.ConnectorMap;
+import com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.client.ServerConnector;
 
 /**
  * Client side decoder for decodeing shared state and other values from JSON
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ public class JsonDecoder {
      * @param jsonArray
      *            JSON array with two elements
      * @param idMapper
-     *            mapper between connector ID and {@link ServerConnector} objects
+     *            mapper between connector ID and {@link ServerConnector}
+     *            objects
      * @param connection
      *            reference to the current ApplicationConnection
      * @return decoded value (does not contain JSON types)
@@ -82,8 +83,7 @@ public class JsonDecoder {
             // TODO handle properly
             val = Boolean.valueOf(String.valueOf(value));
         } else if (JsonEncoder.VTYPE_PAINTABLE.equals(variableType)) {
-            // TODO handle properly
-            val = idMapper.getConnector(String.valueOf(value));
+            val = idMapper.getConnector(((JSONString) value).stringValue());
         } else {
             // object, class name as type
             JSONSerializer serializer = serializerMap
diff --git a/src/com/vaadin/terminal/gwt/server/JsonCodec.java b/src/com/vaadin/terminal/gwt/server/JsonCodec.java
index 4b3f41508e..44180e78c9 100644
--- a/src/com/vaadin/terminal/gwt/server/JsonCodec.java
+++ b/src/com/vaadin/terminal/gwt/server/JsonCodec.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import com.vaadin.external.json.JSONArray;
 import com.vaadin.external.json.JSONException;
 import com.vaadin.external.json.JSONObject;
 import com.vaadin.terminal.Paintable;
+import com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.client.Connector;
 import com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.client.communication.JsonEncoder;
 
 /**
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ public class JsonCodec implements Serializable {
     static {
         registerType(String.class, JsonEncoder.VTYPE_STRING);
         registerType(Paintable.class, JsonEncoder.VTYPE_PAINTABLE);
+        registerType(Connector.class, JsonEncoder.VTYPE_PAINTABLE);
         registerType(Boolean.class, JsonEncoder.VTYPE_BOOLEAN);
         registerType(Integer.class, JsonEncoder.VTYPE_INTEGER);
         registerType(Float.class, JsonEncoder.VTYPE_FLOAT);
diff --git a/src/com/vaadin/ui/Component.java b/src/com/vaadin/ui/Component.java
index 9c3f1a02f1..d3efb74118 100644
--- a/src/com/vaadin/ui/Component.java
+++ b/src/com/vaadin/ui/Component.java
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import com.vaadin.terminal.Resource;
 import com.vaadin.terminal.Sizeable;
 import com.vaadin.terminal.VariableOwner;
 import com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.client.ComponentState;
+import com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.client.Connector;
 import com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.server.RpcTarget;
 
 /**
@@ -53,8 +54,8 @@ import com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.server.RpcTarget;
  * @VERSION@
  * @since 3.0
  */
-public interface Component extends Paintable, VariableOwner, Sizeable,
-        Serializable, RpcTarget {
+public interface Component extends Connector, Paintable, VariableOwner,
+        Sizeable, Serializable, RpcTarget {
 
     /**
      * Gets all user-defined CSS style names of a component. If the component