Export to Excel JSF and PrimeFaces

Question

Using JDK 1.6, JSF 2.1, PrimeFaces 2.2.1, POI 3.2, and Apache Tomcat 7

I am trying to setup a servlet to allow a download of an excel file based on the user selectio

Answer 1

Here is the that i wrote before and working case ;

xhtml ;

Java side(with POI) ;

protected void lOBExport2Excel(List table) throws Throwable {
    Row row = null;
    Cell cell = null;
    try {

        Workbook wb = new HSSFWorkbook();
        HSSFCellStyle styleHeader = (HSSFCellStyle) wb.createCellStyle();
        HSSFFont fontHeader = (HSSFFont) wb.createFont();
        fontHeader.setBoldweight(HSSFFont.BOLDWEIGHT_BOLD);
        styleHeader.setFont(fontHeader);
        Sheet sheet = wb.createSheet("sheet");
        row = sheet.createRow((short) 0);

        for (int i = 0; i < columnNames.size(); i++) {
            cell = row.createCell(i);
            cell.setCellValue(columnNames.get(i));
            cell.setCellStyle(styleHeader);
        }

        int j = 1;

        for (DBData[] temp : tabularData) {
            row = sheet.createRow((short) j);
            for (int k = 0; k < temp.length; k++) {
                HSSFCellStyle styleRow = (HSSFCellStyle) wb.createCellStyle();
                HSSFFont fontRow = (HSSFFont) wb.createFont();
                fontRow.setBoldweight(HSSFFont.BOLDWEIGHT_NORMAL);
                styleRow.setFont(fontRow);
                cell = row.createCell(k);
                setStyleFormat(temp[k].getDataType(), styleRow, wb);
                cell.setCellValue(temp[k].toFullString());
                cell.setCellStyle(styleRow);
            }

            j++;
        }

        String excelFileName = getFileName("xls");

        FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(excelFileName);
        wb.write(fos);
        fos.flush();
        fos.close();

        InputStream stream = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(excelFileName));
        exportFile = new DefaultStreamedContent(stream, "application/xls", excelFileName);


    } catch (Exception e) {
        catchError(e);
    }

}