GWT easy i18n with GIN

Short version, from the GIN tutorial:

Note that if GIN can’t find a binding for a class, it falls back to calling GWT.create() on that class. What this means that image bundles and translated messages will just magically work.

Longer version
Suppose we have some GWT Constants we want to make available application-wide. We have our usual Constants interface

import com.google.gwt.i18n.client.Constants;

public interface MyConstants extends Constants {
	String copyright();
	String logoPath();
}

and the corresponding MyConstants.properties in the same package:

copyright=Copyright 2009 David M Chandler All Rights Reserved.
logoPath=/images/logo.jpg

Now suppose we don’t want to call GWT.create() on it in every class in order to save resources. Thanks to the GIN capability mentioned above, any class created with GIN (which is all views and presenters if you’re using gwt-presenter) can simply do this:

	@Inject
	private MyConstants constants;

There’s no need to create a binding for MyConstants in our GIN module for the above to work, but to get singleton behavior, which is the whole point of this exercise, we must bind it as such in our GIN Module:

bind(MyConstants.class).in(Singleton.class);

Now we’ve theoretically saved some memory and/or CPU by using a singleton, although I wouldn’t be surprised if GWT.create() already does this optimization for Constants and Images…