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Timer

Client side invisible timer which allows to launch some event on server periodicaly

Wrapper for GWT Timer.

It allows to schedule some server side event or run it periodically.

Sample code

    @Override
	protected void init(VaadinRequest request) {
		final VerticalLayout layout = new VerticalLayout();
		layout.setMargin(true);
		setContent(layout);

		Timer timer = new Timer();
		
		Button button = new Button("Click Me");
		button.addClickListener(event -> {
			timer.scheduleRepeatable(1000);
		});
		
		timer.run(() -> {
			layout.addComponent(new Label("Thank you for clicking"));
		});
		
		Button cancel = new Button("Cancel timer");
		cancel.addClickListener(event -> {
			timer.cancel();
		});
		
		addExtension(timer);
		layout.addComponent(button);
		layout.addComponent(cancel);
	}

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