7.7.4

7.7.4

Binder

Binder is feature implementation is now done. Still lacks documentation and examples for being feature complete.

Added Features in alpha 6

• Support for null representation in Binder
  • Maps null value to given representation and back to null for model
• ValueContext for localization support in Converters and Validators
  • Localized error messages, unified easy-to-use Java 8 APIs
• Binder.bindInstanceFields(Object) for reflection based field-property binding
• Grid headers support html/components
• Binding.setRequired(ErrorMessageProvider) for making sure field cannot be empty
  • HasValue:setRequiredIndicator (replaces setRequired)
  • Adds validator for verifying field is not empty

Other fixes

• Components are serializable (and tested for that)
• ValueChangeEvent name fixed and now provides Component/HasValue
• HasValue:setValue(null) semantics, javadocs are fixed and unified
• Binder methods renamed from load, save, bind… to writeBean, loadBean, setBean.
  • This breaks lots of existing API
• Focus/Blur events for RadioButtonGroup, CheckBoxGroup, NativeSelect
• Validators return a ValidationResult instead of Result
• HasValue:setReadOnly instead of Component:setReadOnly

Other stuff

• Utility for outputting full declarative syntax of components (for designer)
• GWT 2.8.0 final is in use
• SelectionModel APIs have been removed from client side, except for Grid

Removing immediate from Components, Deprecated all themes except Valo, DateField inputPrompt -> placeholder

• Binder API documentation now refers to Bean instead of Item
• Immediate mode has been removed
  • AbstractComponent.setImmediate is removed, moved to AbstractLegacyComponent in compatibility packages for those V7 components that still need it
  • In Vaadin 8, all components are immediate
• All themes except Valo have been moved to compatiblity-themes package
• DateField inputPrompt has been changed to placeholder
  • uses placeholder attribute for input element
  • setInputPrompt -> setPlaceholder, getInputPrompt -> getPlaceholder
• Added valo-menu-hover style name for Valo Responsive Menu to show menu automatically on mouse over
• Grid for V8 has basic footer support
• Grid columns have now identifiers, no duplicates allowed
• Fixed framework dependencies leaking into BOM (effected all projects)
• Fixed Mockito/Hamcrest classpath conflict

DateField based on LocalDate, Valo as default theme, ColorPicker for V8

• Server side listeners have been unified (Java 8 API)
• DateField is now based on LocalDate instead of Date
  • "Old" DateField is still in compatibility packages
• ColorPicker is now based on AbstractField
  • ColorPicker subcomponents implement HasValue
  • "Old" ColorPicker is in compatibility packages
• Documentation refers to RadioButtonGroup and CheckBoxGroup instead of OptionGroup
• Valo is the default theme
• Valo is independent of Base theme
• Grid column reordering support for V8 Grid (user and programmatic)
• Upload is updated to have a separate setImmediateMode instead of setImmediate
  • "Old" Upload is in compatibility packages
• NativeSelect V8 DOM has been reverted to be same as in V7
• Update to GWT version 2.8.0-rc3
• Changes from 7.7.1, 7.7.2 and 7.7.3 have been migrated

New Components and Grid enhancements

New features:

• Added features for Grid
  • CheckBoxRenderer and AbstractJavaScriptRenderer
  • Multiple row Headers
  • Column sizing and hiding
• Added RadioButtonGroup, TwinColSelect and ListSelect
• Compatibility classes are now marked as deprecated
• Renamed PopupDateField to DateField
• ItemCaptionProvider and similar interfaces unified and moved out from ComboBox

List of all changes: vaadin/vaadin@8.0.0.alpha2...8.0.0.alpha3

7.7.3

7.7.3

7.7.2

Fixed issues:

• Upgrade from 7.7.0 to 7.7.1 breaks widgeset compilation on Windows
• Grid scrolling is sometimes really, really laggy since Chrome 52
• Perpetual licenses are not accepted by CDN
• Grid columns do not expand correctly when grid is disabled
• Resizing a Grid column to minimum width when there are hidden columns before it breaks Grid
• LayoutManager should ensure temporary variables are cleared at the end of a layout phase

Noteworthy:

• com.vaadin.client.data.DataSource has a new isWaitingForData method to be able to properly handle data requests when a component is disabled. This must be added to any existing DataSource implementation

Listing components and data sources

New features:

• New listing component implementations
  • NativeSelect
  • ComboBox
  • CheckBoxGroup, replaces the multi select version of OptionGroup
• RichTextArea with the same ValueChangeMode support as TextField/PaswordField
• Binder enhancements
  • Support for binding to single and multi selects
  • Binder.hasChanges() for checking if any field value has been modified
  • Errors are cleared after loading or binding a bean
• DataSource.refreshAll() for making a data source reload all data
• TestBench queries now find both old com.vaadin.v7.ui and new com.vaadin.ui components

List of all changes: vaadin/vaadin@8.0.0.alpha1...8.0.0.alpha2

7.7.1

7.7.1

New form binder, new fields, new grid

New features

• A new, much simpler AbstractField
  • No data binding, validators, converters
• A new form Binder for binding fields to data
  • BeanBinder for simple binding to beans
    • Bean validator (JSR-303) support
  • Converter support
  • Validator support
  • Buffered load/save and unbuffered bind modes
  • Converters and validators can be chained in any order, validating field data, bean data or even an intermediate format if needed
  • Bean level validation support
  • Cross field validation support
  • Customizable validation handling for error/ok messages
• New, simpler field implementations
  • Event origin (user or server) included in ValueChangeEvents
  • TextField, PasswordField, TextArea
    • TextChangeListener integrated into ValueChangeListener
  • Different modes for ValueChangeListener (BLUR, EAGER, TIMEOUT, LAZY)
  • Placeholder support through the native placeholder attribute
  • DateField, PopupDateField, InlineDateField, CustomField, Slider
  • Label, ProgressBar are no longer fields as they do not have any way for the user to provide input
• Initial support for new Listing components
  • Grid<BEANTYPE>
    • Tied to a bean type for type safe API
  • More flexible column configuration
  • Many features from Vaadin 7 still missing
  • DataCommunicator to ease implementation of Listing components
• Client side Java 8 support through GWT 2.8-rc2
• Better push support through Atmosphere 2.4

Changes in defaults

• Immediate is the default for all components except Upload, which still gives special meaning to immediate
• Label default width changed to auto, to match other components

Migration packages

• Packaged asvaadin-compatibility-server, vaadin-compatibility-client, vaadin-compatibility-client-compiled
  • Vaadin 7 data binding classes: Container, Item, Property and all implementations
  • Vaadin 7 FieldGroup, converters, validators
  • Vaadin 7 components which use the old data binding (mainly fields and selects)
• All classes moved from com.vaadin.* to com.vaadin.v7.*
  • com.vaadin.v7.Vaadin7WidgetSet which contains all Vaadin 7 components
• Declarative support prefix for old components defined as <vaadin7-, e.g. <vaadin7-text-field>
• YMMV migration tool provided in https://github.com/vaadin/vaadin8-migration-tool

Removed features

• Support for Java 6, 7
• Support for servlet 2.x
• Support for IE 8, 9, 10
• Support for all but the latest browser versions, IE11 is still supported
• Support for Window Phone
• The liferay theme for Liferay 6.0
• RichTextArea no longer receives a special "v-richtextarea-readonly" class when readonly

All changes since 7.7: vaadin/vaadin@7.7...8.0.0.alpha2