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Infinite lazy loading

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Vaadin
Alejandro Duarte
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Alejandro Duarte
Alejandro Duarte is a Software Engineer, published author, and award winner. He currently works for MariaDB plc as a Developer Relations Engineer. Starting his coding journey at 13 with BASIC on a rudimentary black screen, Alejandro quickly transitioned to C, C++, and Java during his academic years at the National University of Colombia. Relocating first to the UK and then to Finland, Alejandro deepened his involvement in the open-source community. He’s a recognized figure in Java circles, credited with articles and videos amassing millions of views, and presentations at international events.

Here’s a short excerpt of Chapter 9 Lazy Loading of my book Data-Centric Applications with Vaadin 8.

Even though we have explained lazy loading by using the Grid component, we can use the same backend service method to implement custom UI components that support lazy loading. For example, you can use a VerticalLayout to add sets of, say, 10 components any time the user clicks a load more button at the bottom of the layout. In this case, you would need to keep track of the current offset and keep incrementing it until the service method returns less than 10 items.

The following is a simple UI component that shows how to implement this type of infinite lazy loading:

public class LazyLoadingVerticalLayout extends Composite {

    private CssLayout content = new CssLayout();
    private Button button = new Button("Load more...");
    private int offset;
    private int pageSize;

    public LazyLoadingVerticalLayout(int pageSize) {
        this.pageSize = pageSize;
        button.setStyleName(ValoTheme.BUTTON\_BORDERLESS\_COLORED);
        VerticalLayout mainLayout = new VerticalLayout(content, button);
        setCompositionRoot(mainLayout);

        button.addClickListener(e -> loadMore());
        loadMore();
    }

    public void loadMore() {
        List<Call> calls = CallRepository.find(
                offset, pageSize, "", new HashMap<>());

        if (calls.size() < pageSize) {
            button.setVisible(false);
        }

        calls.stream()
                .map(call -> new Label(call.toString()))
                .forEach(content::addComponent);

        offset += pageSize;
    }
}

Notice how the loadMore method keeps adding components to the content layout until there are no more results to add, at which point the Load more… button is hidden from the UI.

The following screenshot shows this component in action:

Infinite lazy loading example

_You can learn more about lazy loading and many other topics related to web development with Vaadin in my book Data-Centric Applications with Vaadin 8 _available at  amazon.com,  packtpub.com, and many other online bookstores.

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