[CLOSED] Add Support for Column Formatting with MessageFormat patterns

[tduchateau]

Issue by dgeske from Tuesday Mar 26, 2013 at 03:13 GMT

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Add an attribute format that supports standard java.util.MessageFormat patterns.
Example:

<datatables:column property="email" format="<a href='mailto:{0}'>{0}</a>" />
<datatables:column property="date" format="{0,date,dd-MM-yyyy}" />

results in
ab@cd.de | 01-12-2013
de@fg.hi | 03-10-2012

Inspired by the no longer maintained <display:*> tag library's format attribute.

This will not, however, resolve issue #53 (Improve sorting), because sorting is done client-side.
This feature will result in the already formatted values to be present client-side, with no reference to the original property value.

[tduchateau]

Comment by dgeske from Sunday Apr 14, 2013 at 21:01 GMT

Thanks!

[tduchateau]

Comment by tduchateau from Sunday Apr 14, 2013 at 21:03 GMT

You're welcome :-)
I just didn't test enough regarding sorting and filtering feature using the new format attribute. I think there will be new issues.. :-/