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Vaadin Service Interfaces as CDI Beans

Some Vaadin service interfaces can be implemented as CDI beans. If you do this, the service interface becomes a managed bean with CDI features, and there is no need to register the implementation in Vaadin.

The Vaadin CDI add-on references the following interfaces:

  • I18NProvider

  • Instantiator

  • SystemMessagesProvider

  • ErrorHandler

To ensure that the beans are recognized, they should be qualified by the @VaadinServiceEnabled annotation. This is required because this marks a bean which is used as an I18N provider by the service. If there are any other I18N beans, the one that is also used by the service is used.

Example: Using the @VaadinServiceEnabled annotation to qualify TestSystemMessagesProvider.

@VaadinServiceEnabled
@VaadinServiceScoped
public class TestSystemMessagesProvider
        implements SystemMessagesProvider {

    @Override
    public SystemMessages getSystemMessages(
            SystemMessagesInfo systemMessagesInfo) {
        CustomizedSystemMessages messages =
                new CustomizedSystemMessages();
        messages.setInternalErrorMessage(
                "Sorry, something went wrong :(");
        return messages;
    }
}

@Route
 public class SampleView extends Div {

     @VaadinServiceEnabled
     @Inject
     private TestSystemMessagesProvider messageProvider;

 }

  • The purpose of the @VaadinServiceScoped context is to define a context with the lifespan of the Vaadin service. It is not mandatory for this kind of bean, but is recommended because other Vaadin contexts can be problematic. For example, there is no guarantee that an active Vaadin session or UI context exists when the add-on looks up any of these beans. It is safe to use standard CDI @Dependent and @ApplicationScoped contexts.

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