Hi All.
Current data scroller gives a paginator in the following format:
1-100, 101-200, 201-300.. and so on.
What I would like is value of a column (along which the table is sorted),
for example:
AAA-CAT, CAU-FAX, FBC-MPC... and so on.
The advantage is that user sees immediately where the value lies in the
paginator (and does not have to guess).
I implemented my own solution for it.
Extended t:dataScroller classes with my own (regsitering faces-config, new
taglib, entry in web.xml).
I had to override the following method in
org.apache.myfaces.custom.datascroller.HtmlDataScrollerRenderer
protected HtmlCommandLink getLink(FacesContext facesContext,
HtmlDataScroller scroller,
String text, int pageIndex)
Now the problem here was to get the data of the table mentioned in "for"
property of datascroller.
By default dataScroller has only "rows" (property of t:dataTable) amount of
data (which is currently visible to user).
--scroller.getUIData()
So I used the following hack.
Define the same scroller and table with different IDs with rows=total number
of rows and style=display:none;
Causing it not to show on the page but having the second sroller all the
data in it.
Thus I could build a paginator as mentioned above.
My questions is:
Is there a better way to get all the data in the table? All methods which
provide data are protected.
Thanks for your time.
Tathagat
