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Converting a UI Without Other Frameworks

This step is needed in case your Vaadin 7 or 8 application doesn’t use Spring Boot, CDI, or Navigator. If it uses any of those, go back to the framework selection.

Converting UIs

When not using a Navigator, you can replace the UI class with a Flow component by changing init(VaadinRequest) to a constructor and have UI.setContent to be add(new LegacyWrapper(content)) instead.

Remember to register Route for the class.

For example, look at this code:

@Theme("valo")
public class AddressbookUI extends UI {
    private HorizontalLayout content = new HorizontalLayout();

    @Override
    protected void init(VaadinRequest vaadinRequest) {
        content.setSizeFull();
        setContent(content);
    }
}

It should be converted to this:

@Route("")
public class AddressbookLayout extends Div {
    private HorizontalLayout content = new HorizontalLayout();

    public AddressbookLayout() {
        content.setSizeFull();
        add(new LegacyWrapper(content));
    }
}

Annotations in the UI, such as @Theme and @Title and so on, are dealt with later on in the tutorial. Most of them have similar counterpart in either Flow or MPR.

To make the code look less busy you can also implement the HasLegacyComponents interface so you don’t need to use new LegacyWrapper.

@Route("")
public class AddressbookLayout extends Div implements HasLegacyComponents {
    private HorizontalLayout content = new HorizontalLayout();

    public AddressbookLayout() {
        content.setSizeFull();
        add(content);
    }
}

The next step is Configuring UI Parameters.

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