Vaadin open link in new tab

Question

I have the following piece of code that I wrote using Vaadin. The code opens the page www.google.com when the user clicks the button.

My question is is there any way for me to specify that the page is to be opened in a new tab?

Thanks.

button.addClickListener(new Button.ClickListener() {
    public void buttonClick(ClickEvent event) {
        getUI().getPage().setLocation("http://www.google.com");
    }
});

Answer 1

getUI().getPage().open("http://www.google.com", "_blank");

The _blank window name is important here. Beware that you may also have browsers that will might open the resource in a new window instead.

There is also another signature to the open() method, i.e.

open(String url, String windowName, boolean tryToOpenAsPopup) 

that may fit the bill. HTH.

References: Page (Vaadin 7.2.1 API).

Answer 2

Try the following code:

BrowserWindowOpener opener = new BrowserWindowOpener(new ExternalResource(url));
opener.setFeatures("");
opener.extend(button);