Question

Can we define local variables in jxls which can be used to set an incrementing count for a column.

For eg: Consider the following

<jx:forEach items="${myList}" var="myVar">
-- i need to define a local integer variable here which will have an initial value as 0
-- and i will increment it and display in the output xls's first column
</jx:forEach>

Basically my requirement is to have somekind of local variable declaration in jxls code which i would increment and display in xml.

Any other alternatives are welcome.

Regards,
Rahul

Answer 1

jx:forEach tag support varStatus attribute which defines a name of loop status object which will be passed into bean context for each iteration. The loop status object is an instance of LoopStatus class which has single ‘index‘ property identifying the index of the current item in the collection being iterated

<jx:forEach items="${employees}" var="employee" varStatus="status">
  | ${status.index} | ${employee.name} | ${employee.payment} | ${employee.bonus}
</jx:forEach>