Thymeleaf Spring Data Dialect

Data pagination made easy with thymeleaf and spring data.

This is a dialect for Thymeleaf that provides some attributes to create pagination and sorting elements, bootstrap style, based on Spring Data.

Usage

Add the Layout dialect to your existing Thymeleaf template engine:

templateEngine.addDialect(new SpringDataDialect());		// This line adds the dialect to Thymeleaf

This will introduce the sd namespace, and the new attribute processors that you to use in your pages: pagination, pagination-sort, pagination-summary, pagination-url, page-object, and pagination-qualifier.

Examples

In your @Controller

@RequestMapping("/users")
public String list(ModelMap model, @SortDefault("username") Pageable pageable){
	model.addAttribute("page", userService.find(pageable));
	
	return "users/list";
}

Your html page looks like

<table class="table table-striped table-hover">
	<thead>
	<tr>
	  <th><a class="sorted" sd:pagination-sort="username" >Username</a></th>
	  <th><a class="sorted" sd:pagination-sort="firstName" >First name</a></th>
	  <th>Last Name</th>
	  <th></th>
	</tr>
	</thead>
	<tbody>
	<tr th:each="row : ${page}">
	  <th scope="row" th:text="${row.username}">Username</th>
	  <td th:text="${row.firstName}">Name</td>
	  <td th:text="${row.lastName}">Last Name</td>
	  <td><a href="#">edit</a></td>
	</tr>
	</tbody>
</table>

<div class="row">
    <div class="col-sm-6">
    	<div sd:pagination-summary="pagination.summary">info</div>
    </div>
    <div class="col-sm-6">
    	<nav class="pull-right">
			<ul class="pagination" sd:pagination="full">
				<!-- Pagination created by SpringDataDialect, this content is just for mockup -->
				<li class="disabled"><a href="#" aria-label="Previous"><span aria-hidden="true">&laquo;</span></a></li>
			   	<li class="active"><a href="#">1 <span class="sr-only">(current)</span></a></li>
			</ul>
		</nav>
    </div>
</div>

It's all, by default SpringDataDialect search in the request for the attribute "page" or if one attribute of type org.springframework.data.domain.Page<?> exists.