FWIW, the ADF af:outputText component has a "truncateAt"
attribute.
-- Adam
On 4/6/06, Gary VanMatre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >From: "Lindholm, Greg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> >
> > Is there a way to truncate outputText and specify the size
> > you want from a jsp page?
> >
> > I have an object with a long description property.
> > When it's listed in a dataTable I want to truncate the
> > description column to X characters.
> > Where X can be specified for that column.
> >
> > I know I can add a getTruncatedDescription() method to the
> > object but I think a more general facility would be
> > really useful.
> >
> > Does anybody have a way or doing this with current tags?
> >
> > Is this something that could be done with a converter?
> >
> > Is this something that could be added to ?
> >
>
> Sure. How about something like this:
>
> JSP:
> <h:dataTable value="#{mybean.data}" var="e">
> <h:column>
> <h:outputText binding="#{mybean.output}" value="#{e.chapter}"/>
> </h:column>
> </h:dataTable>
>
> Custom Converter:
> public class TrunkConverter implements Converter {
> private int maximumSize = -1;
>
> public int getMaximumSize() {
> return maximumSize;
> }
>
> public void setMaximumSize(int maximumSize) {
> this.maximumSize = maximumSize;
> }
>
> public Object getAsObject(FacesContext context, UIComponent component,
> String value) throws ConverterException {
> return value;
> }
> public String getAsString(FacesContext context, UIComponent component,
> Object value) throws ConverterException {
> StringBuffer buff = new StringBuffer();
> buff.append(value);
> buff.setLength(maximumSize);
>
> return buff.toString();
> }
>
> }
>
> Backing Bean:
> private HtmlOutputText output = null;
> public HtmlOutputText getOutput() {
> if (output == null) {
> output = new HtmlOutputText();
> FacesContext context = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
> context.getApplication().addConverter("com.acme.TrunkConverter",
> "com.acme.TrunkConverter");
> TrunkConverter converter = (TrunkConverter)
> context.getApplication().createConverter("com.acme.TrunkConverter");
> converter.setMaximumSize(5);
> output.setConverter(converter); &n bsp;
> }
>
> return output;
> }
> public void setOutput(HtmlOutputText output) {
> this.output = output;
> }
>
>
>
> >
>
>
> Gary
