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Implement a custom formula function as an EL function and register it in a TLD. | Implement a custom formula function as an EL function and register it in a TLD. | ||
Revision as of 06:59, 16 November 2010
ZK Spreadsheet allows developers to write their own custom formula functions. One way of implementing them is as a Java static method & declaring using xel-directive and another one is to implement it as EL function and register it in a TLD. Here we describe the second method.
Purpose
Implement a custom formula function as an EL function and register it in a TLD.
Define EL function
Define your custom formula function as an EL function. For example here is an EL function to convert USD to TWD.
public class CurrencyFns {
public static double toTWD(double usdNum, double twdRate) {
return usdNum * twdRate;
}
}
Register and config as a TLD
Register above defined toTWD EL function in a TLD as shown below. [1]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<taglib>
<uri>http://www.zkoss.org/zss/example/custom</uri>
<description>
User defined functions.
</description>
<import>
<import-name>CurrencyFns</import-name>
<import-class>org.zkoss.zss.example.CurrencyFns</import-class>
</import>
<function>
<name>toTWD</name>
<function-class>org.zkoss.zss.example.CurrencyFns
</function-class>
<function-signature>double toTWD(double,double);</function-signature>
<description>
Returns equivalent amount in TWD for the given amount in USD.
</description>
</function>
</taglib>
Configure this TLD in /metainfo/tld/config.xml which can be find in the classpath. For example, you could put it under WEB-INF/classes/metainfo/tld/config.xml, or as part of a JAR file.
<config>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://www.zkoss.org/zss/example/custom</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/web/WEB-INF/tld/custom.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
</config>
taglib directive
To be able to use above defined toTWD EL Function as a custom ZK Spreadsheet formula fuction declare its registed TLD in your ZUL page using taglib directive [1].
<?page title="ZSS" contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8"?>
<?taglib uri="http://www.zkoss.org/zss/example/custom" prefix="zss" ?>
<zk>
<window title="ZSS User Defined Functions" border="normal" width="100%" height="100%">
<spreadsheet width="800px" height="800px"
src="/test2/xls/elfn.xlsx" maxrows="20" maxcolumns="10">
</spreadsheet>
</window>
</zk>
Note that taglib prefix attribute value must be set to "zss" for ZK Spreadsheet to invoke implementation for such custom formula function.
Usage
Once defined and declared above custom formula function can be used just like any other built-in functions of Excel.
=toTWD(A1,B1)
All source code listed in this book is at Github.