There should be LocalDateRenderer and LocalDateTimeRenderer

[pleku]

@pleku commented on Mon Oct 03 2016

DateRenderer should not be Date based, should use e.g. Instant or something else so that user doesn't have to convert to Date.
Another option would be to have several Date related renderers for each type ? E.g. InstantRenderer, LocalDateRenderer ...

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@pleku commented on Tue Oct 11 2016

SHOULD HAVE, but not necessary for FW8.

[Legioth]

I don't think the existing DateRenderer should be changed. We should instead introduce a new class with similar functionality but a different input type.

[nikkijuk]

I will today try to implement my own LocalDateRenderer because I need one, and I believe everyone using Java 8 date types will at the end do the same.. I can't wait Vaadin 8.1 and I believe many others won't wait either.

Turns out there's something I need to know better to do LocalDateRenderer: tried it, but didn't want to spend too much time on debugging and turned back to preformatting dates to strings in value provider of field.

[markathomas]

+1 - this is problematic now that DateField returns LocalDate but DateRenderer requires Date