Iterate Displayed Data rich: dataTable

Question

Hey, I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to access the actual display lines of the rich: dataTable in order to copy its contents to another destination (for example, export to an Excel worksheet).

The only way we can get it working right now is to grab the processed HTML and try to parse our path through it, such as HTML Parser , but this approach is guaranteed to be ugly and full of hacks.

I really hoped there would be a tidier way for this, perhaps using the HtmlDataTable binding to the table, but it seems like all I can get are the table attributes pre-processed, which really doesn't interest me.

Any advice or ideas on how to do this would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Maybe you can try by copying the datatable with some javascript function to the clipboard, and then send it back to the java side, where you can analyze it.