Grid Helpers Add-on

Several grid recipes for Vaadin 23+ (and 22), ready to use. DOES NOT require extending Grid.

Features

Remove multiselect selection column
Freeze a grid's selection (checkbox) column
Create Grid with conditional selection (with the following limitations: #11, #12)
Select Grid rows automatically using up/down arrow keys
Show a Vaadin Grid with compact row styling
Show a meaningful message instead of an empty Grid
Show a menu to toggle the visibility of grid columns

Online demo

Online demo here

Download release

Available in Vaadin Directory

Building and running demo

git clone repository
mvn clean install jetty:run

To see the demo, navigate to http://localhost:8080/

Release notes

See here

Issue tracking

The issues for this add-on are tracked on its github.com page. All bug reports and feature requests are appreciated.

Contributions

Contributions are welcome, but there are no guarantees that they are accepted as such. Process for contributing is the following:

Fork this project
Create an issue to this project about the contribution (bug or feature) if there is no such issue about it already. Try to keep the scope minimal.
Develop and test the fix or functionality carefully. Only include minimum amount of code needed to fix the issue.
Refer to the fixed issue in commit
Send a pull request for the original project
Comment on the original issue that you have implemented a fix for it

License & Author

This add-on is distributed under Apache License 2.0. For license terms, see LICENSE.txt.

Grid Helpers Add-on is written by Flowing Code S.A.

Developer Guide

Getting started

The class GridHelper provides several static methods that receive a Grid or Column as the first parameter:

grid.setSelectionMode(SelectionMode.MULTI);
grid.addThemeName(GridHelper.DENSE_THEME);
GridHelper.setSelectOnClick(grid, true);
GridHelper.setArrowSelectionEnabled(grid, true);
GridHelper.setSelectionColumnHidden(grid, true);

Column<Person> firstNameColumn = grid.addColumn(Person::getFirstName).setHeader("First name");
GridHelper.setHidingToggleCaption(firstNameColumn, "First name");

If you use Project Lombok, you can benefit from the extension method feature:

@ExtensionMethod(GridHelper.class)
public class LombokDemo extends Div {

  public LombokDemo() {
    Grid<Person> grid = new Grid<>();

    grid.setSelectionMode(SelectionMode.MULTI);

    grid.setSelectionColumnHidden(true);
    grid.setSelectOnClick(true);
    grid.setSelectionFilter(Person::isActive);

    grid.addColumn(Person::getFirstName)
        .setHeader("First name")
        .setHidingToggleCaption("First name");

    add(grid);
  }
}

Special configuration when using Spring

By default, Vaadin Flow only includes com/vaadin/flow/component to be always scanned for UI components and views. For this reason, the add-on might need to be whitelisted in order to display correctly.

To do so, just add com.flowingcode to the vaadin.whitelisted-packages property in src/main/resources/application.properties, like:

vaadin.whitelisted-packages = com.vaadin,org.vaadin,dev.hilla,com.flowingcode

More information on Spring whitelisted configuration here.

FlowingCode / GridHelpers

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