May 2015
Beginner to intermediate
412 pages
8h 44m
English
The dataScroller component offers lazy loading of a collection via AJAX when the page is scrolled down.
A basic definition of the dataScroller component would be as shown here:
<p:dataScroller value="#{dataScrollerBean.cars}"
var="car" chunkSize="10">
#{car.name}
</p:dataScroller>The data gets loaded with specified chunks where its size is determined with the chunkSize attribute, and then the retrieved content will be appended at the bottom of the component.
The AJAX loading takes place when the page is scrolled down, and this is achieved by monitoring the vertical scrollbar. This can be modified by the mode attribute, which has document as its default value. When its value is set to
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