Question on passing List to Sheet in Tobago

[John <jo...@jak.com>]

When using a List as a datasource for a sheet, where the List contains
objects that represent row field data, how does the sheet know how to
break the object's data apart for display in the various fields. 
 
I originally thought that I could just do getters in the object matching
the field names in the sheet, but it doesn't get the data. It shows the
right number of rows, so I know it's retrieving the List members ok, it
just doesn't display the field data.
 
John

Re: Question on passing List to Sheet in Tobago

[Volker Weber <us...@weber-oldenburg.de>]

John,

each of the lists objects could accessed while rendering a row by the
name set to the var attribute of the sheet.

e.g.: you have a managedBean "bean" with a property "persons", which is
a list of person objects. The person object has a property "name".

<tc:sheet value="#{bean.persons}" var="data">
  <tc:column label="Header">
    <tc:out value="#{data.name}"/>
  <tc:column>
</tc:sheet>

here var="data" means you can access the person object inside the sheet
by #{data}.

Regards,
  Volker

John wrote:
> When using a List as a datasource for a sheet, where the List contains
> objects that represent row field data, how does the sheet know how to
> break the object's data apart for display in the various fields. 
>  
> I originally thought that I could just do getters in the object matching
> the field names in the sheet, but it doesn't get the data. It shows the
> right number of rows, so I know it's retrieving the List members ok, it
> just doesn't display the field data.
>  
> John
> 

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