jsf - Dynamically adding a row to primefaces dataTable

Question

I need to add a row to my datatable on click of a button - "Add Employee".

The datatable shows the records corresponding to a fixed list of Employees in the bean.

What I am doing is, on click of the "Add Employee" button , I am adding an empty record of Employee to the empList.

Is there any better way to do this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Either you open a dialog or a popup when clicking the add button. Then fill in the required fields (attached to a employee object. And when saving/submit you add that object to your list of employee objects. And rerender the datatable. Or you can initially add an empty emploee object to your list. Showing it in the datatable with inputfields. On add, you add the new employee to the list and rerender the list.