通过GWT场所API，如何在不重新加载页面的情况下更改URL / PLACE / Place-Token？

Question

We have a giant table of orders in a GWT page. As users click on an order the bottom half of the page loads the details for that order.

When OnSelect of an entry in the table I could fire a place change event and change the place token from #OrdersPlace: to #OrdersPlace:123 where 123 is the order number. The problem is that would require the entire table to reload as well.

Is there a way to just change the URL from #OrdersPlace: to #OrdersPlace:123 so on a browser refresh I can get back to where I was by reading the Place Token without starting from scratch by reloading the entire activity?

Answer 1

If you are using Gin you can make the view a singleton and just have it hold onto the existing data. Think of it similar to removing the table from the DOM and then just re-adding it.

There are equivalent ways of doing the same thing without using Gin too.