Create ADF Table programmatically.

Question

I'm trying to populate an af:table programmatically from the backing bean. I have successfully generated the table and the rows/columns. I'm however unable to specify the value of each cell.
Here's my code snippet for populating a dummy table with just one column displaying employee's name.
public class Employee {
      private String name;
      // A bean class with getters/setters
public RichTable generateTable(){
      //create an array list of Employee as data
      List<Employee> data = createSampleData(); 
      RichTable _t = new RichTable();
      //set id, visible, etc. omitted.
      _t.setValue(data);
      _t.setVar("row");
      RichColumn rc = new RichColumn();
      RichOutputText rot = new RichOutputText();
/**** Here's where the problem occurs ****/
     rot.setValue("#{row.name}");
//set id, header etc for RichColumn. omitted
//add output text and rich column as children to the table. omitted
return _t;
Using the codes shown I can get the table rendered with however many rows I created in the array list. Yet in each cell, instead having the name of the employee, the table shows the string #{row.name}
The EL is not resolved but interpreted as a literal string.
How can I set the value of the output text to refer to the value of the name attribute of each row?
Thanks

Answer 1

Hi,
ELContext elContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getELContext();
ExpressionFactory efact = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance(). getApplication().getExpressionFactory();
ValueExpression valExpr = efact.createValueExpression( elContext,elExpression,Object.class);
rot.setValueExpression( "value", valExpr);
Frank