How to work with Converter object in Vaadin 7?

Vaadin 6 / 7 / 8 Framework Data Binding
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Hi,
I am developing an application where I am displaying a set of data in a vaadin table, from MySQL database. The problem is that, there are 2 Date fields which are too long in their default formate. They display the date along with the time span. I want to formate them to a simple formate as “dd-mm-yyyy”. But I dont know how to it. I heard that it can be done using Converter. But when I try to use a Converter I found so many other thing like PRESENTATION, MODEL and so on.

In vaadin 6 this could be achieved by simply calling a method as formatPropertyValue(), but its not available in vaadin 7.

final BeanItemContainer cardBeanItemContainer = new BeanItemContainer(Card.class);
cardBeanItemContainer.addAll(cardService.findByMember(member.getId()));

final Table tblCards=new Table();
tblCards.setSelectable(true);
tblCards.setWidth(“95%”);
//Fill the data
tblCards.setContainerDataSource(cardBeanItemContainer);
tblCards.setVisibleColumns(new Object{“cardType”,“issueDate”,“expiryDate”,“status”});

Converter looks too complex, or I didnt understand it properly.
Can anyone write sample code specifically to formate a date value in the data source which is assigned to a table?

Thanks,
Kishor

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Not sure I understand. It seems to me from our port that Table.formatPropertyValue() is there just fine. The only change we had to make to get rid of a compiler warning was for the third param to be of type Property<?> instead of just Property. But it otherwise formats properties for us and doesn’t appear to be deprecated or the like.

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Thank you very much for the reply David, after reading your reply-post I checked once again and still couldn’t get that method. I am using Eclipse IDE and it was displaying findAncestor(), firstItemId(), focus() etc., but not formatPropertyValue(). I had to type it explicitly. May be there was something wrong with my IDE or I forgot to enable some settings. Also I posted another question regarding this in forum: [url=https://vaadin.com/old-forum/-/message_boards/view_message/3286128]

[/url] and someone replied that in Vaadin 7 we use Converter to achieve this thing. That’s why earlier I thought that it’s not available.

Anyway, my app is working fine now and thanks again,
Kishor