paging

[Kiaama Liames]

Hii,

I am trying to do paging in a jsp with the http://jsptags.com/tags/navigation/pager/index.jsp tag .

In my pg:item i have a logic:iterate tag in request scope, i am unable to display all the pages properly. Anybody faced similiar problems.
[ August 16, 2007: Message edited by: Kiaama Liames ]

[Ro Dowd]

hi, the best thing to use for paging in the SourceForge display tag. It's very easy to use and takes all the pain out of paging in the front-end part of your application. See http://displaytag.sourceforge.net/11/ and http://displaytag.sourceforge.net/11/tut_basic.html (usage tutorial)

Essentially, in your action store your Collection/list (called myList for example) in the request (or session). In your jsp, include the display tag library at the top of your jsp (like you would with other included libraries), then do something like in your JSP:

<display:table name="myList" />

the above is the most basic usage. you can customize it as you wish (see the above links).

hope this helps..

[dennis zined]

+1.

i've used displaytag in another project and its very easy to implement.

[Brent Sterling]

My current project uses the Pager Tag library. It is reasonably easy to integrate. What exactly does "i am unable to display all the pages properly" mean? If you remove the pager tags does your page display?

I will admit that just this week I have been looking for an alternate solution. Implementing paging at the JSP level is okay for even reasonably large datasets, but it is not the most efficient solution. I am also looking for more of an Ajax type solution so users do not have to watch the entire page refresh each time the navigate to the next page of records.

While we are talking about paging...here is a link with some interesting thoughts...that a smart scrolling solution is better than paging:
http://looksgoodworkswell.blogspot.com/2005/06/death-to-paging-rico-livegrid-released.html

- Brent

[dennis zined]

Originally posted by Brent Sterling:
My current project uses the Pager Tag library. It is reasonably easy to integrate. What exactly does "i am unable to display all the pages properly" mean? If you remove the pager tags does your page display?

I will admit that just this week I have been looking for an alternate solution. Implementing paging at the JSP level is okay for even reasonably large datasets, but it is not the most efficient solution. I am also looking for more of an Ajax type solution so users do not have to watch the entire page refresh each time the navigate to the next page of records.

While we are talking about paging...here is a link with some interesting thoughts...that a smart scrolling solution is better than paging:
http://looksgoodworkswell.blogspot.com/2005/06/death-to-paging-rico-livegrid-released.html

- Brent

dang! I have got to take a look at that one...nice post.

[Kiaama Liames]

Hii Brent,

My current project uses the Pager Tag library. It is reasonably easy to integrate. What exactly does "i am unable to display all the pages properly" mean? If you remove the pager tags does your page display?

What i meant was i am getting an empty data grid, when i access the subsequent pages. The first page works fine,it loads the data and the page, but when i try to access the subsequent pages , an empty data grid is shown.

[Kiaama Liames]

Hii,

Anybody using pager-taglib facing similiar problems , ...

[Brent Sterling]

Are you doing something to store the data between pages? My project went with the simplest approach of making another round trip to the database to execute the query again. What are you using for your url property?

- Brent

[Kiaama Liames]

My problem got solved, minor issue with scope

Thanks