Create a design form directly from POJO

[ripla]

Create a fully styled and functional form from a POJO in the workspace.

• Different field types?
• Excluding fields?
• How much logic to include?

Originally from @Artur-.

Examples from @mstahv:

• https://vaadin.com/directory/component/viewgenerator
• http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/53874/entityexpander

[Artur-]

I would be happy with a first version that works similarly to a field factory in FW7. Just create "a suitable" field for each property and make sure it gets a name and is mapped properly to Java. It should be easy enough to tweak the components afterwards

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[mstahv]

This is the best single thing we could do to make Designer more interesting for developers and also not that hard to do. Please don't close this issue.

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Hello there!

It looks like this issue hasn't progressed lately. There are so many issues that we just can't deal them all within a reasonable timeframe.

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[szolo]

@Peppe is this issue somehow related to 1st version of the form generator? Does it make sense to create an epic for it to gather/summarize information we already know.

[Peppe]

Yes. I moved this from inbox to backlog, and converted it to a template.

I see four major tasks when I think what goes into implementing this:

• Be able to drag and drop a java file on top of a design, with drop placements like when you drag any component from palette (IDE specfic feature)
• Generate a HTML snippet with Vaadin components out of a java class based on public getters and setters.
• Insert HTML snippet where ever the drop target was, just like we do with palette templates.
• Add some visual UI controls where you can do the same thing, as doing a d'n'd from project strucutre is not exactly a findable feature. Design and method is fully open, but for example it could be a button that opens a dialog that has a search and list of all java classes in project. When you select one, the snippet for that class is added to node that is currently selected in outline.