JSF - Using DataModel in a DataTable
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In this article, we'll showcase use of datamodel in datatable
Example Application
Let us create a test JSF application to test the above functionality.
| Step | Description |
|---|---|
| 1 | Create a project with a name helloworld under a package com.tutorialspoint.test as explained in the JSF - Display DataTable sub-chapter of JSF - Data Tables chapter. |
| 2 | Modify UserData.java as explained below. |
| 2 | Modify home.xhtml as explained below. Keep rest of the files unchanged. |
| 3 | Compile and run the application to make sure business logic is working as per the requirements. |
| 4 | Finally, build the application in the form of war file and deploy it in Apache Tomcat Webserver. |
| 5 | Launch your web application using appropriate URL as explained below in the last step. |
UserData.java
package com.tutorialspoint.test;
import java.io.Serializable;
import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped;
import javax.faces.model.ArrayDataModel;
import javax.faces.model.DataModel;
@ManagedBean(name = "userData", eager = true)
@SessionScoped
public class UserData implements Serializable {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
private static final Employee[] employees = new Employee[] {
new Employee("John", "Marketing", 30,2000.00),
new Employee("Robert", "Marketing", 35,3000.00),
new Employee("Mark", "Sales", 25,2500.00),
new Employee("Chris", "Marketing", 33,2500.00),
new Employee("Peter", "Customer Care", 20,1500.00)
};
private DataModel<Employee> employeeDataModel
= new ArrayDataModel<Employee>(employees);
public DataModel<Employee> getEmployees() {
return employeeDataModel;
}
}
home.xhtml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core">
<h:head>
<title>JSF tutorial</title>
<h:outputStylesheet library="css" name="styles.css" />
</h:head>
<h:body>
<h2>DataTable Example</h2>
<h:form>
<h:dataTable value="#{userData.employees}" var="employee"
styleClass="employeeTable"
headerClass="employeeTableHeader"
rowClasses="employeeTableOddRow,employeeTableEvenRow">
<h:column>
<f:facet name="header">Sr. No</f:facet>
#{userData.employees.rowIndex + 1}
</h:column>
<h:column>
<f:facet name="header">Name</f:facet>
#{employee.name}
</h:column>
<h:column>
<f:facet name="header">Name</f:facet>
#{employee.name}
</h:column>
<h:column>
<f:facet name="header">Department</f:facet>
#{employee.department}
</h:column>
<h:column>
<f:facet name="header">Age</f:facet>
#{employee.age}
</h:column>
<h:column>
<f:facet name="header">Salary</f:facet>
#{employee.salary}
</h:column>
</h:dataTable>
</h:form>
</h:body>
</html>
Once you are ready with all the changes done, let us compile and run the application as we did in JSF - First Application chapter. If everything is fine with your application, this will produce following result:
