MenuBarElement: looking up menu items by ID rather than by a caption

[Artur-]

From @vaadin-bot on December 1, 2015 11:24

Originally by mvysny2

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Instead of finding menu items by caption, I would consider adding a support for menu items to have developer-defined string ID, and changing the API to looking up menu items by this ID. This also helps if the application may be localized, which causes menu items to different captions based on locale.
This would also solve https://dev.vaadin.com/ticket/16874

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Imported from https://dev.vaadin.com/ issue #19327

Copied from original issue: vaadin/testbench#799

[Artur-]

From @vaadin-bot on December 1, 2015 13:5

Originally by @Legioth

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Depends on #3653 in the framework.

[fante76]

Hi, any news about this problem?

[stale]

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[focbenz]

In our application we use FontIcons in front of the actual captions in the MenuItems. So it is even harder to identify those by captions. Would also very much like to see the ability to set IDs for the items inside the MenuBarElement.

[AlexWagner]

Moreover it would be useful if we could add/remove stylenames as in button component.

[stale]

Hello there!

We are sorry that this issue hasn't progressed lately. We are prioritizing issues by severity and the number of customers we expect are experiencing this and haven't gotten around to fix this issue yet.

There are a couple of things you could help to get things rolling on this issue (this is an automated message, so expect that some of these are already in use):

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• Provide more details how to reproduce the issue.
• Explain why it is important to get this issue fixed and politely draw others attention to it e.g. via the forum or social media.
• Add a reduced test case about the issue, so it is easier for somebody to start working on a solution.
• Try fixing the issue yourself and create a pull request that contains the test case and/or a fix for it. Handling the pull requests is the top priority for the core team.
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Thanks again for your contributions! Even though we haven't been able to get this issue fixed, we hope you to report your findings and enhancement ideas in the future too!

[focbenz]

Please do not stale this ... I think the suggestion to also add and remove stylenames might be good too.

[cdir]

I think @Artur- was right labeling this as a bug. I just rold our customers "no problem you get the ID for automated UI tests in a second" and then realize that it is not supported. Realy? This is a bug not an enhancement.

[TatuLund]

From Vaadin 8.12.1: if you set the MenuBar id, say "my-menu", the menu items will have generated id's "my-menu-1", "my-menu-2", ...