gwthtmlresource

A HTML resource generator for GWT. License APL 2

What

TL;DR: Works just like TextResource but minifies the inlined HTML.

In detail

GWT resource bundles inline images and textual information into the generated JavaScript deployable. If you need HTML fragments (eg. because you abudantly use HTMLPanels you would normally inject them with a TextResource such as:

interface ScreenTemplates extends ClientBundle {

	@Source("install-app-prompt.html")
	TextResource appInstallPrompt();
  
  ...

The example above would pick up install-app-prompt.html, inline it into the generated .nocache.js file(s) and return the html contents when appInstallPrompt() is invoked.

If we substitute TextResource with HtmlResource then the example becomes:

interface ScreenTemplates extends ClientBundle {

   @Source("install-app-prompt.html")
   HtmlResource appInstallPrompt();
 
 ...

but the returned HTML content will be minified.

How to use

The artefact isn't available on maven central, so you have to add a repository:

<repositories>
	<repository>
		<id>gwt-sl-mvn-repo</id>
		<url>https://raw.github.com/ggeorgovassilis/gwt-htmlresource/mvn-repo/</url>
		<snapshots>
			<enabled>true</enabled>
			<updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
		</snapshots>
	</repository>
</repositories>

and then use the dependency

<dependency>
	<groupId>com.georgovassilis</groupId>
	<artifactId>gwt-htmlresource</artifactId>
	<version>0.0.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>

Releases

For GWT prior to 2.11 use 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT

For GWT 2.11 and later use 0.0.2-SNAPSHOT

Credits

This code is based on the TextResource and TextResourceGenerator classes of the GWT project

ggeorgovassilis / gwt-htmlresource