About the AddRowButton Add-on category

AddRowButton Add-on: Vaadin 7 Grid does not yet have editor event. This is a small short coming
if you want to create button to add a row to your grid with the following
logic

  1. Click button to add a row
  2. Activate editor on the new row
  3. Delete row if user selected to click cancel instead of save

Hence I wrote this experimental add-on, which encapsulates needed logic
in form of extended Vaadin Button.

Notes

  • Works currently only with BeanItemContainer
  • Uses threads, hence Push needs to be enabled
  • Beans used with AddRowButton must have default constructor without
    parameters in order to intanstiate
  • Doesn’t work with Vaadin 7.6.1 - 7.6.2 due layout bug in Editor
  • Doesn’t work with Vaadin 7.5.4 and older due bug Grid row book
    keeping

Status of this utility is experimental. I hope this is also useful demo
case how to work with Vaadin using threads.

Usage:

Setup the Grid first.

Usage

  • Create new AddRowButton using its constructor.

AddRowButton button = new AddRowButton(String caption, Grid grid,Class<?> MyBean.class);

caption: the caption of the button
MyBean: the beantype of your bean
grid: the grid you use this utility with