Conditional Pagination on Datatable

primefaces

Solution

Say you've got this `dataTable` (from the showcase):

<p:dataTable id="dataTable" var="car" value="#{tableBean.cars}"  
             paginator="true" rows="10"  
             paginatorTemplate="{CurrentPageReport}  {FirstPageLink} {PreviousPageLink} {PageLinks} {NextPageLink} {LastPageLink} {RowsPerPageDropdown}"  
             rowsPerPageTemplate="5,10,15">

You could turn the paginator conditionally off like this:

<p:dataTable id="dataTable" var="car" value="#{tableBean.cars}"  
             paginator="#{tableBean.exceedsFive}" rows="10"  
             paginatorTemplate="{CurrentPageReport}  {FirstPageLink} {PreviousPageLink} {PageLinks} {NextPageLink} {LastPageLink} {RowsPerPageDropdown}"  
             rowsPerPageTemplate="5,10,15">

The bean:

public boolean isExceedsFive() {
    return cars.size() > 5;
}

Notice the reference with EL in `paginator=""`.

Problem

I need conditional pagination on data-table, that is, need to add pagination only if the number of records is > say 5. The reason is when the pagination is included in the data table, it occupies the space of a row on screen. In maximum cases, the number of rows would be 5 only. So, the intent is to save the screen space for these majority cases.

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