feat: add DefaultDynamicTheme annotation AND fix: fall back to an application-wide default dynamic theme AND fix: do not add the dynamic theme stylesheet twice AND deprecate: deprecate DynamicTheme.initialize(AppShellSettings)

[javier-godoy]

Close #172

DynamicTheme kept its state only in a VaadinSession attribute, and only initialize(...) set it while generating index.html. A UI running in a session that never served index.html had no theme. That happens after a server restart or scale-to-zero while a tab is open, or when index.html is served from a cache. In those sessions prepare()/apply() threw IllegalStateException, getCurrent() returned null, and TabbedDemo hid the theme selector.

Changes

• fix: fall back to an application-wide default dynamic theme
  The default theme is now also stored in the VaadinContext. getCurrent() and isFeatureInitialized() fall back to it when the session has no theme, and getCurrent() copies it into the session. DynamicThemeInitializer registers the theme from dynamic-theme.properties as the default when the application starts. If there are several files, the first one wins, matching which listener initializes the session. initialize(...) also registers its theme as the default if none is set yet.
• fix: do not add the dynamic theme stylesheet twice
  initialize(IndexHtmlResponse) skips the <link> if index.html already has one. configurePage output is added before the index.html listeners run, so this covers setups that use both approaches.
• feat: add DefaultDynamicTheme annotation
  @DefaultDynamicTheme(DynamicTheme.LUMO) on the AppShellConfigurator replaces calling initialize(settings) from configurePage. DynamicThemeInitializer reads it from the AppShellRegistry at startup, so the default is known before the first request. If the annotation is present, dynamic-theme.properties is ignored.
• deprecate: deprecate DynamicTheme.initialize(AppShellSettings)
  Marked @Deprecated(since = "5.5.0", forRemoval = true). It only runs when index.html is generated, so it can't provide a default until index.html has been served once. The demo and README now use the annotation.

Migration

// Before
public class AppShellConfiguratorImpl implements AppShellConfigurator {
  @Override
  public void configurePage(AppShellSettings settings) {
    if (DynamicTheme.isFeatureSupported()) {
      DynamicTheme.LUMO.initialize(settings);
    }
  }
}

// After
@DefaultDynamicTheme(DynamicTheme.LUMO)
public class AppShellConfiguratorImpl implements AppShellConfigurator {
}

Projects that also target Vaadin 14 or 23 keep using META-INF/dynamic-theme.properties. It now also registers the default at startup.

Notes

• Theme choice after a restart: a theme the user picked, for example Aura, lived only in the old session, so after a restart the new session starts with the default. If the page isn't reloaded, the page can keep showing Aura while getCurrent() and the selector report the default. Nothing breaks, and selecting a theme brings them back in sync, because apply() enables and disables the <link> elements whichever one is active.
• Remaining gap for configurePage users: apps that keep the deprecated configurePage call still have the cold-start gap until they migrate.

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• New Features
  • Applications can now set a default dynamic theme through a startup annotation. The default is available even to sessions that did not load the app’s HTML page.
  • When no annotation is configured, themes continue to be loaded from properties files, with the first successfully loaded theme used as the default.
• Bug Fixes
  • Prevented adding a duplicate theme stylesheet link when one is already present.
• Documentation
  • Updated setup guidance for the new configuration approach. Initialization through configurePage is deprecated.

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The change adds @DefaultDynamicTheme for application-shell configuration. Startup registers a default from the annotation or properties resources. DynamicTheme uses the application default when a session has no theme and avoids adding a duplicate stylesheet link.

Changes

Dynamic theme defaults

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Context default and session fallback base/src/main/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/demo/DynamicTheme.java	DynamicTheme can register a context default and use it when the session has no theme. The AppShellSettings initializer is deprecated for removal, and the response initializer skips a stylesheet link when a matching link already exists.
Startup configuration and example base/src/main/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/demo/DefaultDynamicTheme.java, base/src/main/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/demo/DynamicThemeInitializer.java, README.md, base/src/test/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/demo/AppShellConfiguratorImpl.java	Startup checks for @DefaultDynamicTheme before reading properties resources. Properties resources set the first available theme as the default. The README and example use the annotation instead of initialization in configurePage.

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Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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The change lets sessions that never loaded index.html fall back to an application-wide default dynamic theme. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy issue #172. DynamicThemeInitializer registers an application-wide default from @DefaultDynamicTheme or the first valid properties entry. getCurrent() copies that default into…
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base/src/main/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/demo/DynamicTheme.java (1)

122-124: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

setDefaultIfAbsent depends on an undocumented side effect of getAttribute.

The method calls context.getAttribute(DefaultTheme.class, supplier) and ignores the result. This works only if the two-argument getAttribute stores the supplied value when the attribute is absent. VaadinContext documents this behavior, and the Flow implementations follow it. The intent is not obvious to readers, though. Add a short comment that names the store-if-absent semantics.

   private void setDefaultIfAbsent(VaadinContext context) {
+    // getAttribute(type, supplier) stores the supplied value when no attribute exists
     context.getAttribute(DefaultTheme.class, () -> new DefaultTheme(this));
   }

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base/src/main/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/demo/DynamicThemeInitializer.java (1)

57-68: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

The annotation path does not check for the legacy @Theme annotation at startup.

DynamicTheme.initialize calls assertNotLegacyTheme() when index.html is served. The annotation path registers the default at startup and does not perform that check. A shell with both @Theme and @DefaultDynamicTheme still fails only when the first index.html is served. Sessions that bypass index.html can then use the default with a conflicting legacy theme. This is an edge case. The current behavior is consistent with the Javadoc, which says the shell must not carry @Theme.

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@base/src/main/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/demo/DynamicThemeInitializer.java
around lines 57 - 68:
Validate the shell’s legacy @Theme annotation in the DefaultDynamicTheme startup
path before calling theme.setDefault or registering the index listener. Reuse
the existing assertNotLegacyTheme check from DynamicTheme.initialize so a shell
carrying both annotations is rejected at startup.

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Review comments at
@base/src/main/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/demo/DynamicTheme.java:
- Around line 122-124: Add a brief comment in DynamicTheme.setDefaultIfAbsent
explaining that VaadinContext.getAttribute with a supplier stores the supplied
value when the attribute is absent; leave the method behavior unchanged.

Review comments at
@base/src/main/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/demo/DynamicThemeInitializer.java:
- Around line 57-68: Validate the shell’s legacy @Theme annotation in the
DefaultDynamicTheme startup path before calling theme.setDefault or registering
the index listener. Reuse the existing assertNotLegacyTheme check from
DynamicTheme.initialize so a shell carrying both annotations is rejected at
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[paodb]

LGTM, thanks for addressing the comments! Could you squash the WIP commits into their original commits before merging? Thanks.

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