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title: Showing Extra Data For Grid Rows
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[[showing-extra-data-for-grid-rows]]
= Showing extra data for Grid rows

Some data might not be suitable to be shown as part of a regular Grid,
e.g. because it's too large to fit into a Grid cell or because it's
secondary information that should only be shown on demand. This kind of
situation is covered with the row details functionality that shows a
Vaadin Component in an area expanded below a specific row. Using this
functionality is a two step process: first you need to implement a
generator that lazily creates the `Component` for a row if it has been
expanded, and then you need to hook up the events for actually expanding
a row.

This example uses the same data as in the
<<UsingGridWithAContainer#using-grid-with-a-container,
Using Grid with a Container>> example.

[[detailsgenerator]]
DetailsGenerator
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

A details generator is a callback interface that Grid calls to create
the Vaadin `Component` that is used for showing the details for a specific
row. In this example, we create a layout that contains a label, an image
and a button that all use data from the row.

[source,java]
....
grid.setDetailsGenerator(new DetailsGenerator() {
  @Override
  public Component getDetails(RowReference rowReference) {
    // Find the bean to generate details for
    final GridExampleBean bean = (GridExampleBean) rowReference.getItemId();

    // A basic label with bean data
    Label label = new Label("Extra data for " + bean.getName());

    // An image with extra details about the bean
    Image image = new Image();
    image.setWidth("300px");
    image.setHeight("150px");
    image.setSource(new ExternalResource("http://dummyimage.com/300x150/000/fff&text=" + bean.getCount()));

    // A button just for the sake of the example
    Button button = new Button("Click me", new Button.ClickListener() {
      @Override
      public void buttonClick(ClickEvent event) {
        Notification.show("Button clicked for " + bean.getName());
      }
    });

    // Wrap up all the parts into a vertical layout
    VerticalLayout layout = new VerticalLayout(label, image, button);
    layout.setSpacing(true);
    layout.setMargin(true);
    return layout;
  }
});
....

[[opening-the-details-for-a-row]]
Opening the details for a row
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Since there are multiple different UI patterns for how details should be
opened (e.g. clicking a button in a cell or double clicking anywhere on
the row), Grid does not have any action enabled by default. You can
instead implement your own listener that takes care of showing and
hiding the details for the rows. One easy way of doing this is to add an
item click listener that toggles the status whenever a row is double
clicked.

[source,java]
....
grid.addItemClickListener(new ItemClickListener() {
  @Override
  public void itemClick(ItemClickEvent event) {
    if (event.isDoubleClick()) {
      Object itemId = event.getItemId();
      grid.setDetailsVisible(itemId, !grid.isDetailsVisible(itemId));
    }
  }
});
....

[[full-example]]
Full example
^^^^^^^^^^^^

Putting all these pieces together, we end up with this class that uses
the same data as in the link:UsingGridWithAContainer.asciidoc[Using
Grid with a Container] example.

[source,java]
....
import com.vaadin.event.ItemClickEvent;
import com.vaadin.event.ItemClickEvent.ItemClickListener;
import com.vaadin.server.ExternalResource;
import com.vaadin.server.VaadinRequest;
import com.vaadin.ui.Button;
import com.vaadin.ui.Button.ClickEvent;
import com.vaadin.ui.Component;
import com.vaadin.ui.Grid;
import com.vaadin.ui.Grid.DetailsGenerator;
import com.vaadin.ui.Grid.RowReference;
import com.vaadin.ui.Image;
import com.vaadin.ui.Label;
import com.vaadin.ui.Notification;
import com.vaadin.ui.UI;
import com.vaadin.ui.VerticalLayout;

public class ShowingExtraDataForRows extends UI {
  @Override
  protected void init(VaadinRequest request) {
    final Grid grid = new Grid();
    grid.setContainerDataSource(GridExampleHelper.createContainer());

    grid.setDetailsGenerator(new DetailsGenerator() {
      @Override
      public Component getDetails(RowReference rowReference) {
        // Find the bean to generate details for
        final GridExampleBean bean = (GridExampleBean) rowReference.getItemId();

        // A basic label with bean data
        Label label = new Label("Extra data for " + bean.getName());

        // An image with extra details about the bean
        Image image = new Image();
        image.setWidth("300px");
        image.setHeight("150px");
        image.setSource(new ExternalResource("http://dummyimage.com/300x150/000/fff&text=" + bean.getCount()));

        // A button just for the sake of the example
        Button button = new Button("Click me", new Button.ClickListener() {
          @Override
          public void buttonClick(ClickEvent event) {
            Notification.show("Button clicked for " + bean.getName());
          }
        });

        // Wrap up all the parts into a vertical layout
        VerticalLayout layout = new VerticalLayout(label, image, button);
        layout.setSpacing(true);
        layout.setMargin(true);
        return layout;
      }
    });

    grid.addItemClickListener(new ItemClickListener() {
      @Override
      public void itemClick(ItemClickEvent event) {
        if (event.isDoubleClick()) {
          Object itemId = event.getItemId();
          grid.setDetailsVisible(itemId, !grid.isDetailsVisible(itemId));
        }
      }
    });

    setContent(grid);
  }
}
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