How to make only some columns editable in a Vaadin Grid?

Question

Vaadin Grid allows to be defined as editable with

grid.setEditorEnabled(true);

This makes all visible columns editable. However I don't want the user to edit an specific column, but seems like the editable is an all or nothing.

The next best solution I have found is to define an editor field with a disabled editor, which almost does the trick but the user is still able to select the text and move the cursor (but the field is not editable anymore).

Grid.Column nameColumn = grid.getColumn("fullName");
nameColumn.setHeaderCaption("Full Name");
nameColumn.setEditorField(getNoEditableTextField());

...

private Field<?> getNoEditableTextField() {
    TextField noEditableTextFiled = new TextField();
    noEditableTextFiled.setEnabled(false);
    return noEditableTextFiled;
}

I believe Label cannot be used because it's not a Field.

Is there a better option to achieve this?

edit: as aakath said, there is a way of achieving this not enabling the column to be edited, but in doing so the cell value disappears when you edit the row, which is not desirable.

Answer 1

Did you try calling setEditable(false) method on the column? I believe it should make the field non-editable when the item editor is active.

grid.getColumn("fullName").setEditable(false);