Given a JSF/EJB stack, how do I filter the contents of a dataTable listing automatically using the values of a field in a pojo/entity bean?
i.e. I have an entity bean Employee with name field having a value of “John” I would like to use this bean to filter the data table to show only records with name John, and not having to construct the where clause manually?
I use
PrimeFaces'dataTable with filtering and eventually lazy-Loading. Filtering alone is done at a client level, but lazy-loading is done at a server level.Here you can find some examples.
Both are implemented with Ajax features by PrimeFaces: on typing each character, the filters are applied and the results updated.
With PrimeFaces’ lazy-loading you have also the possibility to handle by yourself the filters: on typing a character in a filter, your implementation of the filter is invoked: with a little of Criteria Builder queries you can write the WHERE conditions in a type-safe and OO way, by building an array of
Predicates: this implies that you don’t need to write a single line of sql code.