How to use Hyperlinks in a table

Question

In my JSF application, I have a table that returns a list of customers. I want to have each link pull up the customer details page with the data for the row that the user clicked on. Is there an easy way to do this?
I have figured out how to replace a text field in a column with a hyperlink and have set it to display the correct text for each row but I have the following issues:
1) if I try to use the current row, it is always the first row displayed, not the row the user clicked on
2) I can construct the link url in such a way that it posts back to me with the customer Id, but then how do I obtain the information? From the request Bean?
For example my urls on 2 rows of the table are:
http://localhost:28080/TestApp/faces/Home.jsp?CustID=1
http://localhost:28080/TestApp/faces/Home.jsp?CustID=2
This is how I built the links:
<ui:tableColumn binding="#{Home.tableColumn2}" headerText="Customer ID" id="tableColumn2" sort="customer.customer_id">
<ui:hyperlink binding="#{Home.hlCustomer}" id="hlCustomer" target="_self"
text="#{currentRow.value['customer.customer_id']}" url="?#{currentRow.value['customer_url']}"/>
Any help apprechiated, as I am new at this.

Answer 1

I'm not sure if this is what you want to do, but I did something similar, allowing JSC to handle everything.
    public String hyperlinkClarifyCaseNum_action() {
        // Select the current case & go to editSev1
        TableRowDataProvider rowData = (TableRowDataProvider) getBean("currentRow");
        getRequestBean1().setClarifyCaseNum((Integer)rowData.getValue("espsev1.sev1ClarifyCaseNum"));
        getRequestBean1().setSev1ID((Integer)rowData.getValue("espsev1.sev1ID"));
        return "editSev1";
    }This saves the key (sev1ID) in a session bean, then goes to the page that will allow user to edit the sev1 entry. That page retrieves the key & does the query to populate the page.
I copied this from the JSC book available free on the website.
Very similar to 2) above ;-)