jmesa renders the html as text

Question

I'm using jmesa in Java directly using the tableModel.render() to get the HTML directly. Some of my web objects in my result lists contain HTML - example:

class blah {
    String email;
    public String getEmailLink() {
      return "<a href='" + email + "</a>"
    }
}

In my Java code I would just do this:

htmlRow.addColumn(new HtmlColumn("emailLink"));

jmesa is rendering this as text. How can I tell jmesa to render the text as-is to be html in the document?

TIA

Answer 1

Looking at the JMesa soure code, HtmlCellEditor automatically escapes HTML.

I haven't tested it, but you should be able to override the default HtmlCellEditor with a different type... such as the bare-bones BasicCellEditor. It shouldn't be too much extra code:

HtmlColumn emailLinkColumn = new HtmlColumn("emailLink");
emailLinkColumn.setCellEditor(new BasicCellEditor());
htmlRow.addColumn(emailLinkColumn);

Another option to all of this is to create a custom CellEditor and have it create your <a> tag for you instead of doing it in your bean. This page should get you started with custom CellEditors if you want to go that route.

BTW, if you are messing with just a value inside of a cell, overriding/replacing CellEditor is probably all you need (CellEditor it is analogous to the body of a <td>). CellRenderer is concerned with the entire cell (analogous to the <td> as well as its contents).