p:dataExporter does not recognize p:cellEditor

Question

I have an editable with and I want to export the content of that table into PDF format using

Answer 1

I agree, I also find this approach to customize the Exporter behaviour the most flexible and least painful.

Anyone interested in using the preProcessor/postProcessor methods with this? Here's an example how to do that.

I dared to slightly modify the method from the answer above:

public void exportPDF(DataTable table, String filename, 
        String preProcessor, String postProcessor) throws IOException {

    FacesContext context = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
    ExpressionFactory factory = context.getApplication().getExpressionFactory();

    MethodExpression preProcessorME = factory.createMethodExpression(
        context.getELContext(), preProcessor, null, new Class[] {Object.class});
    MethodExpression postProcessorME = factory.createMethodExpression(
        context.getELContext(), postProcessor, null, new Class[] {Object.class});

    Exporter exporter = new ExtendedPDFExporter();
    exporter.export(context, table, filename, false, false, "UTF-8", 
        preProcessorMe, postProcessorME);

    context.responseComplete();

}

And this is how you use it in your page (again, I just modified the above example):

    ...
    ...
    ...
    

Notice that there ARE NO NESTED EL STATEMENTS (that is not allowed anyway), the last two arguments are simple Strings containing EL expressions.