Vaadin Tip: Lazy Loading and Item Identity
When using grids, trees, or any other of the multi-valued component with Vaadin you often want to display data from a database table, and typically you have more than a few rows in the database.
In this case loading, thousands or even millions of records don’t make sense and would be a huge performance problem. For this use case, Vaadin provides lazy loading using a CallbackDataProvider.
To create a CallBackDataProvider you must implement a CountCallback and a FetchCallback.
The CountCallback is used to provide the total number of records. And the FetchCallback is used for paging. Both methods receive an Query object that contains filter, sorting, offset and limit.
In this example, you can see how to use offset and limit.
DataProvider<Employee, Void> dataProvider = new CallbackDataProvider<>(
query -> employeeRepository.findAll(query.getOffset(), query.getLimit()),
query -> employeeRepository.count()
);
Item Identity
In a Grid or the DataProvider there are methods that are using an item:
grid.select(employee); dataProvider.refreshItem(employee);
Ever wondered how Vaadin is finding the right item in the underlying data structure? No surprise – it uses equals().
But what if you can’t control how equals() is implemented? For example, is the Class that you use in the Grid is generated directly from the database tables like jOOQ does?
No worries! Vaadin provides another constructor to create a CallbackDataProvivder
As a third parameter, you pass a ValueProvider that is responsible to return a unique identifier. In the example, this is the ID of the Employee.
DataProvider<Employee, Void> dataProvider = new CallbackDataProvider<>(
query -> employeeRepository.findAll(query.getOffset(), query.getLimit()),
query -> employeeRepository.count(),
Employee::getId
);
What’s next?
Ever heard of Vaadin? Stay tuned there will be a Vaadin introduction coming soon!
His favorite tools are Vaadin, jOOQ, Spring Boot, Apache Camel, and PostgreSQL.
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