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Custom facelet <p:colum> does not filter properly

I've got a problem with the column tag in a primeface datatable. I've got a model with a lot of similar fields so in order to reduce code, I'm trying to have a custom made tag to fill each column. So rather having to write something like

<p:column headerText="MyHeader" filterBy="#{d.two}" styleClass="ps-footprint-type ps-vertical-title" >
    <f:facet name="filter">
        <p:triStateCheckbox onchange="PF('w_footprintsTable').filter()" converter="triStateBooleanConverter" />
    </f:facet>
    <h:panelGroup rendered="#{d.two}">  <i class="pi pi-check">v</i> </h:panelGroup>
</p:column>

I'm trying to have something like

 <sjsf:booleanColumn value="#{d.two}" header="MyHeader" tableWidget="w_footprintsTable"/>

By following advice from @Jasper in the following thread, I've managed to do most of it using a facelet tag. The only problem is the filtering. It works fine for explicit column but it only works on the last column when using my facelet tag.

I've created a little git project here to show all the code and run it if needed. It will display the following page. The first 3 boolean columns are explicit <p:column> tags (the filtering works for all three), the next 3 boolean columns use my facelet tag and as you can see, column "four" doesn't filter correctly but column "six" does.

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Anybody faced this kinda of issue and was able to solve it?

PS: this is the code of my custom tag

<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" 
    xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
    xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" 
    xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" 
    xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui"
    xmlns:cc="http://java.sun.com/jsf/composite">

    <p:column headerText="#{header}" filterBy="#{value}" styleClass="sj-vertical-title" >
        <f:facet name="filter">
            <p:triStateCheckbox onchange="PF('#{tableWidget}').filter()" converter="triStateBooleanConverter" />
        </f:facet>
        <h:panelGroup rendered="#{value}">
            <i class="pi pi-check">V</i>
        </h:panelGroup>
    </p:column>

</ui:composition>
Solution

  • Although it is documented as kind of optional, in our case, we had to add the field attribute. I think it was because custom tag attributes could not be resolved in the filter request. So use:

    <p:column filterable="true" field="#{property}" ... />

    For other uses we added custom tag attributes to a component using:

    <f:attribute name="myAttr" value="#{myAttr}" />

    which you are able to read later via:

    #{component.attributes.myAttr}

    or:

    #{component.parent.attributes.myAttr}

    depending on the component.