Chapter 4. The Enriched Data Container and QR Code Components

PrimeFaces core library provided many data container components, such as datatable, subtable, datagrid, and datalist, to accumulate big datasets with lots of features. These components hold iterative data in the form of plain text, images, and other JSF or PrimeFaces UI components' content. The PrimeFaces Extensions team introduced enhanced data container components such as MasterDetail to display multilevel data in order to save web page space and FluidGrid component to display cascading data in addition to the existing data container components developed from the PrimeFaces core library. Apart from the data container components, the Extensions team added a new QR code component as the best alternative to the conventional bar codes.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Understanding the MasterDetail component and its various features

• Explaining the FluidGrid cascading component and its features

• Introducing the newly...