dataTable question

[DeAlton Jones]

Hi everyone,
I was wondering if there is anyway to access the components attributes from the backerbean and change them.

What i am trying to do is if a button is pressed I want to display all the records in a dataTable. It is easy to do for one table but I have multiple DataTables on my page as jsp includes. So I figure that there must be some way to access the components and change an attribute then refresh the page.

Still learning ...and learning...and learning

[Richard Green]

yeah just map your dataTable to a List on the backing bean and populate the list when the button is pressed.

[DeAlton Jones]

Originally posted by Lynette Dawson:
yeah just map your dataTable to a List on the backing bean and populate the list when the button is pressed.

I am not sure I know what you mean by map dataTable to a list. Can you elaborate a little more. I am trying to make this a reuseable class and I want to be able to use this class regardless of how many dataTables are on the page (which are done with jsp:include).

I have been able to achieve this by assigning a variable to the rows attribute in the HTML and based upon a conditioning in the backerbean show some or all of the records. But I do this for each dataTable.

I am trying to keep a global view in mind and not individually code each page.

[Bauke Scholtz]

Bind the datatable to the backing bean.

JSF

<h:dataTable binding="#{myBean.table}" />

MyBean

private HtmlDataTable table; // + getter + setter

Then you can access all attributes. Also see javax.faces.component.html.HtmlDataTable.
[ October 09, 2006: Message edited by: B L Scholtz ]