Showing Sequence No with datatable

[Nishita Jain]

hi,
i m using h : datatable and i that 1 of the colums i want to show sequence No like
1
2
3
4
5
until the datatable loop.
how can i print that between h:column

i also tried using jstl tags but it is not working
any suggestion on this , pl help

Thank u,
Nishita
[ April 03, 2006: Message edited by: Nishita Jain ]

[Nishita Jain]

somebody pls help me. i m stuck because of this.
Thank you.
[ April 07, 2006: Message edited by: Nishita Jain ]

[Gerardo Tasistro]

What I do is put the number inside the bean that is displayed in the row.

[Nishita Jain]

ya, that can be done but is it a good idea to put it in bean ,generate getter setter?

[Jamie Williams]

I'm also stuck on this bugger or a problem. I'm using huge numbers of objects and having to display up to 1000 at a time. I've been for'ing through lists and generating arrays of the object properties with a element that holds a line number, then adding those arrays to another list to pass to the datatable, but this I realise is incredibly inefficient and slow. I'd really like to know if there's a better solution too!
Isn't there something that generates row numbers dynamically?

[Bagwan Mehrat]

Tomahawk's version of the dataTable has a "rowIndexVar" attribute that you can use to do this.

[Jamie Williams]

Thanks alot! That will really help!

For those not using Tomahawk - here's a simple solution.

Use a simple get method in a bean that keeps count of the row number, every time you call the get method, increment it then return. When you want to 'reset' the number (say, for another table on the same page) set your counter back to zero in an empty method that checks if the table is rendered or not eg. isMyDataTableRendered()

[Nishita Jain]

hello,,
thanks for the solution . i think this number solution is already put by Gerardo. but what i want to ask is is that a good way to put your no in bean.. i think we can consider this as bug . what u say?

Nishita