fix: allow to set any type of PlotOptions to Navigator.series

[bwajtr]

Description

The Navigator class allows setting additional plot options in the navigator.series attribute → the navigator uses it to configure the small charts that is visible under the main chart.

According to the API spec, you should be able to set any PlotOptions type to the navigator.series attribute (any subclass of AbstractPlotOptions).

However, in the Vaadin Chart Java API, the navigator.series attribute was defined as PlotOptionsSeries - which itself is a subclass of AbstractPlotOptions. During the implementation of Gantt chart support in I faced the issue, that this is not enough, and you can't configure the Navigator as you want this way. For example, you can't use the PlotOptionsGantt as navigator.series because PlotOptionsGantt is not a subclass of PlotOptionsSeries — in fact, none of the PlotOptions*** classes is.

So you cannot do for example the following:

        final PlotOptionsGantt navigatorPlotOptions = new PlotOptionsGantt();
        navigatorPlotOptions.setPointPadding(0.2);
        navigator.setSeries(navigatorPlotOptions);

This change changes the type of the navigator.series attribute to AbstractPlotOptions, so you can set there any plot options and therefore configure the navigator properly.

This change is backwards compatible.

Part of #4731

Type of change

• Bugfix
• Feature

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This ticket/PR has been released with Vaadin 24.7.0.alpha4 and is also targeting the upcoming stable 24.7.0 version.