How iterate over List and render each item in JSF Facelets

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You’re going need to iterate over it. JSF 2 offers three iteration components out the box. Provided that the User entity look like below,

@Entity
public class User {
    private @Id Long id;
    private String username;
    private String email;
    private LocalDate birthdate;
    // Add/generate getters+setters.
}

and that the search results are assigned as a List<User> users property of a bean which is available as #{bean},

@Named @RequestScoped
public class Bean {
    private List<User> users;
    // Add/generate postconstruct+getter.
}

here are some examples based on it:

  1. <h:dataTable>, an UI component which generates a HTML <table>.

    <h:dataTable value="#{bean.users}" var="user">
    <h:column>#{user.id}</h:column>
    <h:column>#{user.username}</h:column>
    <h:column><a href="mailto:#{user.email}">#{user.email}</a></h:column>
    <h:column>#{user.birthdate}</h:column>
</h:dataTable>

  2. <ui:repeat>, an UI component which generates no HTML markup (so, you’d have to write all that HTML in the desired fashion yourself, which could easily be changed to e.g. <ul><li>, or <dl><dt><dd>, or <div><span>, etc):

    <table>
    <ui:repeat value="#{bean.users}" var="user">
        <tr>
            <td>#{user.id}</td>
            <td>#{user.username}</td>
            <td><a href="mailto:#{user.email}">#{user.email}</a></td>
            <td>#{user.birthdate}</td>
        </td>
    </ui:repeat>
</table>

  3. <c:forEach>, a tag handler which runs during view build time instead of view render time (background explanation here: JSTL in JSF2 Facelets… makes sense?), it also doesn’t produce any HTML markup:

    <table>
    <c:forEach items="#{bean.users}" var="user">
        <tr>
            <td>#{user.id}</td>
            <td>#{user.username}</td>
            <td><a href="mailto:#{user.email}">#{user.email}</a></td>
            <td>#{user.birthdate}</td>
        </td>
    </c:forEach>
</table>

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