displaying multiple components within a cell of vaadin grid

Question

Is there any way I can display multiple components(like CheckBox, Label etc.) to a single cell of a Vaadin Grid? The Grid displays data populated dynamically by a GeneratedPropertyContainer.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If you search the Vaadin directory you will find a few extensions, such as ComponentRenderer add-on which allow you to have such features in a somewhat painless way. Below you can see a code sample based on Vaadin v7.7.3 and v1.0.2 of the before-mentioned add-on. Please remember to update and recompile your widgetset.

public class GridWithMultiComponentRenderer extends VerticalLayout {

    private static final String BUTTONS_ID = "buttons";

    public GridWithMultiComponentRenderer() {
        // basic grid setup
        Grid grid = new Grid(new BeanItemContainer<>(Person.class));
        grid.setSizeFull();
        addComponent(grid);

        // add the decorator
        ComponentGridDecorator<Person> gridDecorator = new ComponentGridDecorator<>(grid, Person.class);

        // generate the column which will display the components
        gridDecorator.addComponentColumn(BUTTONS_ID, person -> new HorizontalLayout(
                new Button("Get name", event -> Notification.show(person.getName())),
                new Button("Get surname", event -> Notification.show(person.getSurname())),
                new Button("Get age", event -> Notification.show(String.valueOf(person.getAge())))
        ));

        // set column order
        grid.setColumns("name", "surname", "age", BUTTONS_ID);

        // add some dummy data
        Random random = new Random();
        for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
            gridDecorator.add(new Person("Name " + i, "Surname " + i, random.nextInt(99) + 1));
        }
    }

    // POJO for simple binding
    public static class Person {
        private String name;
        private String surname;
        private int age;

        public Person(String name, String surname, int age) {
            this.name = name;
            this.surname = surname;
            this.age = age;
        }

        public String getName() {
            return name;
        }

        public void setName(String name) {
            this.name = name;
        }

        public String getSurname() {
            return surname;
        }

        public void setSurname(String surname) {
            this.surname = surname;
        }

        public int getAge() {
            return age;
        }

        public void setAge(int age) {
            this.age = age;
        }
    }
}

Result: