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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • The column visibility control now appears as a menu attached to the grid for a cleaner toggle experience.
    • Added support for configuring the column-toggle icon.
    • Improved positioning and styling across supported grid themes.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Hidden column-toggle controls are removed when not visible, preventing unnecessary layout artifacts.
  • Chores

    • Updated the project to the 2.2.0-SNAPSHOT development version.

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Walkthrough

The column-toggle menu now uses a named fc-column-toggle slot in the grid shadow root. ColumnToggleHelper manages the menu bar directly, supports configurable icons, updated styles target the slotted element, and tests validate the new rendering model.

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Column toggle migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Slot creation and styling
src/main/resources/META-INF/frontend/fcGridHelper/connector.js, src/main/resources/META-INF/frontend/fcGridHelper/styles.css, src/main/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/gridhelpers/GridHelper.java
The connector creates the fc-column-toggle slot. Styles position and size the slotted vaadin-menu-bar. GridHelper imports the global grid styles.
Menu rendering and API behavior
src/main/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/gridhelpers/ColumnToggleHelper.java, src/main/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/gridhelpers/GridHelper.java, src/test/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/gridhelpers/ColumnToggleMenuDemo.java, src/test/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/gridhelpers/LombokDemo.java
ColumnToggleHelper appends or removes the menu bar from the grid element and assigns the slot. Component- and factory-based icon setters are available. isMenuToggleColumn is obsolete and always returns false.
Column-toggle validation
src/test/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/gridhelpers/it/ColumnToggleIT.java, src/test/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/gridhelpers/it/GridHelperElement.java, src/test/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/gridhelpers/test/GridHelperTest.java
Tests locate the slotted menu, verify its slot assignment and visibility lifecycle, and remove assertions that treated the toggle as a dedicated grid column.
Project version update
pom.xml
The Maven project version changes to 2.2.0-SNAPSHOT.

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The column-toggle behavior change breaks an existing legacy toggle-column test, so consumers relying on the previous behavior may fail; merge should wait until compatibility is restored or the change is explicitly accepted.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title accurately identifies both primary changes: moving the column toggle into a slot and making its icon configurable.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address issue #177 by relocating the column selector from a grid column and adding configurable icon support.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The implementation, tests, demos, styling, and version update are related to the column-toggle relocation and icon changes.
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In `@src/main/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/gridhelpers/GridHelper.java`:
- Around line 365-367: Update GridHelperTest.testMenuToggleColumn to stop
asserting that the deprecated GridHelper.isMenuToggleColumn returns true after
setColumnToggleVisible(true); remove that legacy column assertion or replace it
with a slot-based UI assertion.

In `@src/main/resources/META-INF/frontend/fcGridHelper/connector.js`:
- Around line 32-34: Update the slot initialization in GridHelper.onAttach’s
initLazy flow to first check grid.shadowRoot for an existing slot named
fc-column-toggle; create and append the slot only when none exists, making
repeated attachments idempotent.
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Other observations:

  • The issue 177 asked for an opt-in toolbar above the grid, explicitly worrying that changing the default could be unwelcome. This PR takes a different route, an overlay pinned to the grid, always on, no new API. I think that's a reasonable call (no new API surface, and the grid still looks like a plain grid), but since it isn't what was proposed, it would be good to say so on the issue so the reporter knows the toolbar idea was considered and declined.

  • Aura problems: In Aura, if the last column is sortable, it's header can't be clicked to sort it: the new toggle overlays that area and takes the click.

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menuBar.getThemeNames().add(MenuBarVariant.LUMO_TERTIARY.getVariantName());
menuBar.getThemeNames().add(MenuBarVariant.LUMO_TERTIARY_INLINE.getVariantName());
MenuItem menuItem = menuBar.addItem(VaadinIcon.ELLIPSIS_DOTS_V.create());
MenuItem menuItem = menuBar.addItem(VaadinIcon.CARET_DOWN.create());

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Changing away from ⋮ matches what the issue asked for a bare ⋮ reads as "more actions" and doesn't hint that columns can be hidden. But I don't think CARET_DOWN is the right replacement:

  • A caret is a dropdown affordance, conventionally attached to a labelled control. On its own it conveys less than ⋮ did, not more: it says neither "menu" nor "columns".
  • More importantly, the toggle now sits in the header row, where the grid's own sort indicator is also a caret/arrow. A lone ▾ in the top-right corner of the header is easy to read as a sorting control.

Also and more important: there is no API to override the icon, so every existing user gets the new appearance on upgrade with no way back. Not an API break, and the minor bump to 2.2.0 is right, but it should be called out in the release notes. And the possibility to override it should be considered as a future enhancement.

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@paodb Addressed all but the Aura problems. I also notice some styling issues with Lumo that were not evident when using the caret icon (expect more commits).
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