I want to capture and display dates at the minute resolution, in a table and in a form.
I currently have a weird collection of generated columns and field factories, that I wrote by stumbling along as I was first learning Vaadin.
I should be able to define a “startTime” property in my Field factory, set the resolution there, and be done with it. I should be able to use the FieldFactory for both forms and Tables.
- I should not have to define a columnGenerator to format it. Table should just use the fieldFactory and use a read-only rendering of the field. Right now it does a toString(), which blissfully ignores the resolution.
- I should not have to write my own routine because there is no “toString()” that takes into account the date resolution.
Right now, I have to override Table() to override getPropertyValue(), and I have to override the various fields to have a proper toString().
The same logic goes for other fields like Select – the toString() should give me a readable list, not the current nonsense.
PropertyFormatter looks like a good idea, but again, there has to be a way to say,
ONCE
, what the formatting for an item is like. In most instances, the value I show in a table, and the value I edit in that table, and the value I edit in a popup or detail form, all need to be consistent. Right now, this is waaaaaay too much work.