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

7.7.0

7.7.0