[trinidad 1.2] docs, rowselection, sorting, pagenation, filtering?

[Me Self <wm...@gmail.com>]

I have a few questions about the trinidad table component. Hope
someone can answer at least some of them..

1) I havent found much documentation other than
http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad/devguide/table.html. Is there any
ADF documentation that would be usefull or is the trinidad version too
different from the ADF one? In particular Im interested in
documentation on how to use/subclass CollectionModel.

2) Sorting: The MyFaces 1.2 book from packt mentions that sorting is
supported simply by using a List with beans with fields that implement
Comparable and setting <tr:column sorting="true">. This dosent work
for me. Is direct use of CollectionModel required to enable sorting?

3) Im using rowSelection="multiple". This adds a column with the
header title "Select". All other text values in the table are backed
by i18n bundle files. How do I override the default title of the row
selection column with text from a bundle file?

4) Nobody I have talked to get the meaning of the "select all" "select
none" icons above the row selection column. Is there any way to
override the default icons with text links/buttons or other icons?

5) The table seems to operate with two control bars. In the top
control bar I get the pagenation buttons (prev, next, dropdown with
pagenumbers) and in the sub control bar I get the "select all"/"select
none" icons. Is there any way to put them on the same line because it
looks wierd that pagenations buttons are dangling far to the right
with lots of space between them and the table?

6) Im planning to add my own filter buttons to the action facet and
implement a CollectionModel where I can return rows based on the
selected filters. When the user presses a filter button im going to
update the model using ajax. Does that sound like standard way of
doing or are there better options?

Re: [trinidad 1.2] docs, rowselection, sorting, pagenation, filtering?

[Cédric Durmont <cd...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

1/ I don't know of a good CollectionModel subclassing example. Anyway,
I never really had the need for it. If you need to load rows on demand
and such, you may as well subclass List

2/ Don't forget in your <tr:column> to set sortable="true" AND
sortProperty="someAttribute", where "someAttribute" is the property
name of the row object (NOT an EL) :
<tr:table var="order" value="#{myBean.orders}"...>
<tr:column sortable="true" sortProperty="date">  <!-- refers to
order.date . If myBean.orders is a List<Order>, then this will use
Order.getDate() to get the value for sorting-->
...

3/ This is tricky to find. It's a skinning feature. See
http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad/devguide/skinning.html . You have
to define a subclass of ResourceBundle that provides an array of keys
and translations, like this :
public class Traduction extends ListResourceBundle
{

	@Override
	protected Object[][] getContents()
	{
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		return _CONTENTS;
	}
	static private final Object[][] _CONTENTS =
    {
      {"af_tableSelectMany.SELECT_COLUMN_HEADER", "change me !"},
      {"af_tableSelectOne.SELECT_COLUMN_HEADER", "change me !"},
    };
}
The trickiest part of it is that the keys are often not documented,
you have to scan the source code to find them...

4/ Again you should find all you ned in the skinning section
5/ Not that I know of. The 2 bars are rendered as two different html tables
6/ Sounds fine to me. I'd simply use a list and put the filtering
stuff in a bean, though. Unless you plan to componentize your filtered
table

Regards,
Cedric Durmont

2011/7/8 Me Self <wm...@gmail.com>:
> I have a few questions about the trinidad table component. Hope
> someone can answer at least some of them..
>
> 1) I havent found much documentation other than
> http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad/devguide/table.html. Is there any
> ADF documentation that would be usefull or is the trinidad version too
> different from the ADF one? In particular Im interested in
> documentation on how to use/subclass CollectionModel.
>
> 2) Sorting: The MyFaces 1.2 book from packt mentions that sorting is
> supported simply by using a List with beans with fields that implement
> Comparable and setting <tr:column sorting="true">. This dosent work
> for me. Is direct use of CollectionModel required to enable sorting?
>
> 3) Im using rowSelection="multiple". This adds a column with the
> header title "Select". All other text values in the table are backed
> by i18n bundle files. How do I override the default title of the row
> selection column with text from a bundle file?
>
> 4) Nobody I have talked to get the meaning of the "select all" "select
> none" icons above the row selection column. Is there any way to
> override the default icons with text links/buttons or other icons?
>
> 5) The table seems to operate with two control bars. In the top
> control bar I get the pagenation buttons (prev, next, dropdown with
> pagenumbers) and in the sub control bar I get the "select all"/"select
> none" icons. Is there any way to put them on the same line because it
> looks wierd that pagenations buttons are dangling far to the right
> with lots of space between them and the table?
>
> 6) Im planning to add my own filter buttons to the action facet and
> implement a CollectionModel where I can return rows based on the
> selected filters. When the user presses a filter button im going to
> update the model using ajax. Does that sound like standard way of
> doing or are there better options?
>