Package com.vaadin.event.selection

Interface SelectionEvent<T>

Type Parameters:

T - the data type of the selection model

All Superinterfaces:

HasUserOriginated, Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

MultiSelectionEvent, SingleSelectionEvent

public interface SelectionEvent<T>
extends HasUserOriginated

A selection event that unifies the way to access to selection event for multi selection and single selection components (in case when only one selected item is required).

Since:

8.0

Author:

Vaadin Ltd

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Set<T>	getAllSelectedItems()	Gets all the currently selected items.
Optional<T>	getFirstSelectedItem()	Get first selected data item.

Methods inherited from interface com.vaadin.event.HasUserOriginated

isUserOriginated

Method Detail

getFirstSelectedItem

Optional<T> getFirstSelectedItem()

Get first selected data item.

This is the same as SingleSelectionEvent.getSelectedItem() in case of single selection and the first selected item from MultiSelectionEvent.getNewSelection() in case of multi selection.

Returns:

the first selected item.

getAllSelectedItems

Set<T> getAllSelectedItems()

Gets all the currently selected items.

This method applies more to multiselection - for single select it returns either an empty set or a set containing the only selected item.

Returns:

return all the selected items, if any, never null