sorting and exporting from a rich-datatable

[janson12]

Hi,
i came across an issue when trying to take use of the sort function of rich:datatable. Somehow the collection itself is not sorted what makes an appropriate export (pdf) impossible. Even when assigning my own comparator the original collection was not touched. Is there a way to force a sorting of my collection, or will i have to make a propertyx binding for each column, check each one for its current state and sort again (manually) when the users presses the export button??
Thanks in advance.

[maxmustang]

Hi Janson,

Did you find a solution? I need exactly the same.

Greetings MAx

[maxmustang]

ok i found a solution that works for me:

Getting Table from the GUI as it is sorted on the GUI:

import org. richfaces.component.html .HtmlDataTable;

HtmlDataTable personsTable = (HtmlDataTable)FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getViewRoot().findComponent("form1:persons");
for (int i = 0; i < personsTable.getRowCount(); i++) {
//loop over the rows
personsTable.setRowIndex(i);
//get the values from row and add it a Person-Bean
Person person = (Person) personsTable.getRowData();
// Add the person to a List for further needs f.i. a pdf
persons.add(person);
}