NavigationBuilder

A builder-style way of programming navigation with event handling in Vaadin.

This addon provides a builder-style way of programming navigation in Vaadin.

It enriches the existing functionality. No widgetset compiling required.

Features

1. Builder-style navigation implementations;
2. Open (external) url's in current or new tab;
3. Navigate to url fragments (like '/app');
4. Navigate through browser history (back/next);
5. Make use of pre-configured navigations;
6. Attach your own listeners to be executed upon navigation;
7. Navigate right away, or prepare your navigation and perform it later (or again).

Sample code

NavigationUtils.navigate()
                .to("www.google.com")
                .inNewTab()
                .withListener(event1 -> LOGGER.trace("Navigating to external url in a new tab."))
                .go();

NavigationUtils.navigate()
                    .toLocation("/register")
                    .withListener(e -> LOGGER.trace("Navigating to " + e.getUrl()))
                    .go();

NavigationUtils.createReloadNavigation().withListener(l -> System.out.println("Page reloaded!")).go(); // Adding a listener to the pre-configured navigation.
NavigationUtils.createBackNavigation().go(); // Go back one page in the browser history
NavigationUtils.createNextNavigation().go(); // Go one page forward in the browser history

List<NavigationBuilder> navigations = new ArrayList<>();
NavigationBuilder reload = NavigationUtils.navigate().reload();
NavigationBuilder openGoogleInNewTab = NavigationUtils.navigate()
        .to("http://www.google.com")
        .inNewTab();
NavigationListener navigationListener = navigationEvent -> {
    LOGGER.info("Some custom navigation of type: {} was executed.", navigationEvent.getNavigationType());
};
navigations.add(reload);
navigations.add(openGoogleInNewTab);
navigations.forEach(builder -> {
    builder.withListener(navigationListener);
    builder.go();
});

Links

• Issue Tracker
• Source Code
• Introduction Blog Post
• Author Homepage

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