Handling buttons or links in table rows
If you you have a command link or button in a row of a dataTable, there is an easy way to get to row bean from an javax.faces.event.ActionListener.
<h:dataTable value="#{ResultsBean.hitSet.hits}" var="hit"> <h:column> <h:commandLink> <f:actionListener type="net.java.OrderActionListener" /> <h:outputText value="Order" /> </h:commandLink> ... </h:column> </h:dataTable>
By this simple Java code in your subclass of javax.faces.event.ActionListener you get the row bean.
public class OrderActionListener implements ActionListener { public void processAction(ActionEvent anEvent) throws AbortProcessingException { YourBeanClass tmpBean = null; UIComponent tmpComponent = anEvent.getComponent(); while (null != tmpComponent && !(tmpComponent instanceof UIData)) { tmpComponent = tmpComponent.getParent(); } if (tmpComponent != null && (tmpComponent instanceof UIData)) { Object tmpRowData = ((UIData) tmpComponent).getRowData(); if (tmpRowData instanceof YourBeanClass) { tmpBean = (YourBeanClass) tmpRowData; //TODO Implementation of your method } } //TODO Exception Handling if UIData not found or tmpRowBean of wrong type } }