Vaadin - Refresh grid after row modification

Question

I create simple grid with data from database:

BeanItemContainer<Customer> container = new BeanItemContainer<>(Customer.class, customerRepository.findAll());
Grid grid = new Grid(container);

To edit each row the button was created:

Button edit = new Button("Edit", clickEvent -> openWindow((Customer) grid.getSelectedRows().iterator().next()));

This open new window with edit form. After all changes accepted, I must manually refresh whole page to see modification on Grid. My question is:

How refresh only Grid after modification of any row entry? And how save those modifications to database (maybe beanItemContainer could do it)?

Answer 1

It's a bug. Grid doesn't update itself after changes were done in underlying container nor has any reasonable method to refresh. There are several hacks around this issue i.e.

grid.clearSortOrder();

or

grid.setEditorEnabled(true);
grid.setEditorEnabled(false);

SSCCE:

TextField text =  new TextField("Edit");
Grid grid;
BeanItemContainer<Customer> container;

@Override
protected void init(VaadinRequest request) {
    final VerticalLayout layout = new VerticalLayout();
    container = new BeanItemContainer<>(Customer.class, Arrays.asList(new Customer("1"), new Customer("2")));
    grid = new Grid(container);
    Button open = new Button("open");
    open.addClickListener(this :: openListener);
    Button save = new Button("save");
    save.addClickListener(this :: saveListener);
    layout.addComponents(grid, open, save, text);
    setContent(layout);
}

private void openListener(Button.ClickEvent clickEvent){
    text.setValue(((Customer) (grid.getSelectedRow())).getName());
}
private void saveListener(Button.ClickEvent clickEvent){
    Customer c = (Customer) grid.getSelectedRow();
    c.setName(text.getValue());
    grid.clearSortOrder();
}

Possible duplicate Update Grid with a fresh set of data, in Vaadin 7.4 app

Answer 2

With Vaadin 8, the following works to refresh the grid after rows have been added or removed or the underlying data has been changed:

grid.getDataProvider().refreshAll();