I am creating a webpage that displays user history. Written in Java, I have pojo that contains properties that my jsf retrieves via bean injection. The problem: one of the values is a url. Currently, the String is a long url but isn't clickable. Also to note, these values (Strings) are in an ArrayList. How can I assign a String value that contains a url and output a clickable url?
userHistoryDetails.completeData bean may look like this (sudo):
[{status=complete,userid=123,reportUrl=http://www.reporturl.com}]
example of table created in my jsf file. Where #{cRow[cColModel.value]}
creates a row in the table with its respective header value.
<ace:dataTable id="completedTable"
value="#{userHistoryDetails.completeData}" var="cRow"
paginator="true" rows="50" paginatorPosition="both"
emptyMessage="NO RECORDS TO DISPLAY">
<c:forEach items="#{userHistoryDetails.userHistoryHeaders}"
var="cColModel">
<ace:column headerText="#{cColModel.headerText}">
#{cRow[cColModel.value]}
</ace:column>
</c:forEach>
</ace:dataTable>
Please let me know if this does not make sense. It is kind of hard to explain. Thanks in advance!
EDIT I have tried changing String to:
[{status=complete,userid=123,reportUrl=<a href="http://www.reporturl.com">View report</a>}]
but still no luck. I feel like I am on the right track, just missing something.
How can I assign a String value that contains a url and output a clickable url?
Two ways:
<a href="#{bean.url}">#{bean.url}</a>
<h:outputLink value="#{bean.url}">#{bean.url}</h:outputLink>
userHistoryDetails.completeData bean may look like this (sudo):
[{status=complete,userid=123,reportUrl=http://www.reporturl.com}]
example of table created in my jsf file. Where
#{cRow[cColModel.value]}
creates a row in the table with its respective header value.
So .. If #{cColModel.value}
equals to reportUrl
you want to generate a link? That'll have to look something like this:
<ui:fragment rendered="#{cColModel.value eq 'reportUrl'}">
<a href="#{cRow[cColModel.value]}">#{cRow[cColModel.value]}</a>
</ui:fragment>
<ui:fragment rendered="#{cColModel.value ne 'reportUrl'}">
#{cRow[cColModel.value]}
</ui:fragment>