Time for action – passing data from the search users dialog to the source page

Let us add a new column Select to the DataTable in the searchUsers.xhtml page to select a user, and pass the selected user's details back to source page. Perform the following steps:

1. Create a DataTable component with a Select column to choose a user row using the following code:

   <p:dataTable id="usersTbl" value="#{userController.searchUsers}" var="user">
     <p:column headerText="EmailId">
       #{user.emailId}
     </p:column>
     <p:column headerText="Name">
       #{user.firstName} #{user.lastName}
     </p:column>
     <p:column headerText="Select">
       <p:commandButton icon="ui-icon-search" actionListener="#{userController.selectSearchUser(user)}" />
     </p:column>
   </p:dataTable>

2. When the user selects a row (user), close the dialog by passing the selected user object as data:

   public void selectSearchUser(User user){
     RequestContext.getCurrentInstance().closeDialog(user);
   }

3. Register...