Vaadin and ItemRenderers / Templates

Vaadin 6 / 7 / 8
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Will Vaadin 7 have any support for Item Renderers (flex) or Templates (SenchaGXT) both basically the same thing which lets you customize very granular the display of a component.

e.g.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3999034/how-to-set-item-renderer-for-listview-in-ext-gwt

In this example they are using a list control and using a template which defines how each item in the list is renderered. This was amazingly powerful in flex, and i’m happy to see Sencha GXT has this. Does Vaadin 6.x have this? if not any plans for Vaadin 7 to have this? This really is a killer feature

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While not the most intelligent solution, but you could use plain Labels in XHTML mode and use regular string replacements (I’m sure there are plenty of great libraries/solutions for this in Java) for the HTML template.

But it might be worth while having something more thought out right in the core. A new enhancement ticket about it would be the best way forward, where you describe your use case in more detail.

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Could you direct me to where I can post an enhancement request? Thanks kindly.

[EDIT]
I found it :slight_smile: thanks