Can someone post some code on this ? (only rough sketch ... nothing
elaborate really.

Thanks in advance.
Rick

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:54 PM, John Krasnay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi RG,
>
> You probably want to look at how DataTable in wicket-extensions works.
> The idea is you set up an array of column objects, each of which knows
> how to display the data in a particular column, and a data provider,
> which provides an iterator over the objects represent your rows. The
> DataTable puts these two together and renders an HTML table.
>
> You can tackle your PDF problem in a similar way. Create a different
> column abstraction that writes to the iText API, then create a component
> analagous to DataTable but that writes the PDF out to a stream.
> Internally, this DataTable-equivalent would create the iText document,
> iterate over the rows returned by the data provider, and for each row
> iterate over the columns, asking each column to render its particular
> cell.
>
> We use this approach for generating spreadsheets (using POI instead of
> iText, of course) and it works like a charm.
>
> jk
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 01:56:43PM -0700, nanotech wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a table displayed in ListView element of wicket and would like to
> > generate a PDF using iText API.
> > Can someone suggest how to get started with this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > RG
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