Is there a way to customize an exported file ?

[Will]

Hi,
I would like to know if there is a way to add some stuffs in a generated exported file like title, subtitle, caption...
I use this code to generate an export file :

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<html:commandButton value="Exporter en CSV">
		<opt:exportActionListener type="csv" target="tabPeriode" fileName="data"/>
</html:commandButton>
</p>
<p style="text-align:center">
<html:commandButton value="Exporter en PDF">
		<opt:exportActionListener type="pdf" target="tabPeriode" fileName="data"/>
</html:commandButton>
</p>
<p style="text-align:center">
<html:commandButton value="Exporter en XML">
		<opt:exportActionListener type="xml" target="tabPeriode" fileName="data"/>
</html:commandButton>
</p>

thanks

[cagatay.civici]

Currently no but this actually sounds like a good candidate for a new feature. Something like postProcessor should be really helpful so users can hook in some custom code for customization. I think of something like this. What do you think?

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public void postProcessPDF(Document document) {
//custom code to modify with itext
}

And then

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<html:commandButton value="Exporter en PDF">
      <opt:exportActionListener type="pdf" target="tabPeriode" fileName="data" postProcessor="#{bean.postProcessPDF}"/>
</html:commandButton>

[Will]

I think it could be a nice idea.
How might i do this ? i've few time to take a look (entreprise project)

[cagatay.civici]

I'll try to add it when I find some open space. But as a hack if you need it asap you can change our PDFExporter and build the project. Related class is;

http://code.google.com/p/primefaces/sou ... orter.java

[cagatay.civici]

Will, fyi preProcessor and postProcessors are added to dataExport to allow customization before and after exporting. See the online demo to see it in action.