How to include a primeface column into a composite - jsf

Question

I have a primefaces datatable with a lot of similar columns such as
<p:column filterBy="#{element.value}" filterFunction="#{applicationHelperController.filterByNumber}" styleClass="ps-90-header" >
<f:facet name="header">
<p:tooltip for="#next" value="Some header tooltip"/>
<h:outputText id="#{header}_id" value="Some header" styleClass="ps-90-header" />
</f:facet>
<h:outputText value="#{element.value}" />
</p:column>
Is there a way of creating a composite for it such as to write
<mine:column value="#{element.value}" header="Some header" headerTooltip="Some header tooltip" />
I've been searching/trying things for a day now without any real success.
I've managed to use an <ui:include...> with params but it's almost as verbose as the original
<ui:include src="/WEB-INF/includes/countColumn.xhtml" >
<ui:param name="value" value="#{element.value}"/>
<ui:param name="header" value="Some header"/>
<ui:param name="headerTooltip" value="Some header tooltip"/>
</ui:include>
I've tried using taglib as preconized here How to create a composite component for a datatable column? even if it uses richfaces and this solution Column as Composite Component inside DataTable but none work.
I've also read somewhere that <p:column...> should be a direct child of <p:datatable...> so it is not possible but I believe that was with old primefaces version (3 or 4).
So, does anyone know if it is possible with Primefaces 6 or 8 and if so how?

Answer 1

You can use custom Facelet tags to DRY your code.
Simply create tags for columns like:
<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:ui="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui">
<p:column ...>
...
</p:column>
</ui:composition>
This is how a table looks in one of our projects:
<dt:dataTable controller="#{controller}"
sortField="activationDate">
<dt:column id="id"/>
<dt:columnDate id="activationDate"/>
...
<dt:dataTable/>