Create Vaadin form using Binding form to data - forms

Question

I'm trying to create form with Vaadin using "Binding form to data" with this class:
public class Job {
private String nom_projet;
private String svn;
private String planning1;
private String planning2;
private String goals;
}
with getters and setters.
When I try this everything works fine:
final Form form = new Form();
Job bean = new Job();
BeanItem<Job> item = new BeanItem<Job>(bean);
form.setItemDataSource(item);
I tried to add a custom field like its described in "Book of Vaadin" so I created this class:
public class MyFieldFactory implements FormFieldFactory {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
public Field createField(Item item, Object propertyId, Component uiContext) {
Select select = new Select("goals");
select.addItem("compiler:compile");
select.addItem("clean install");
select.addItem("clean");
select.addItem("package");
select.addItem("test");
select.setNewItemsAllowed(true);
return select;
}
}
But when I wanted to add this statement to MyApplication.java:
form.setFieldFactory(new MyFieldFactory());
I got "setFieldFactory" underlined and 3 choices:
() Cast argument 1 to FieldFactory
Change to setFirldFormFactory(...)
Let 'MyFieldFactory' implements 'FieldFactory'
When I click on:
Let 'MyFieldFactory' implements 'FieldFactory'
custom field does not appear in form.

Answer 1

the setFieldFactory method take a FieldFactory as parameter and your MyFieldFactory class implements FormFieldFactory wich is not the same.
In Vaadin javadoc, the setFieldFactory is mark as deprecated and they hint you to use setFormFieldFactory(FormFieldFactory formFieldFactory) instead.
Using this method will solve your problem.
Regards.