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    I am using filter expression in a datatable. I do know there are inbuilt function provided which says fn:containsIgnoreCase and fn:startWith. But my user would like to add a wild card to select what they want to filter with. how can I do it?  The below code does not work 

     

     

     

     

    <rich:column width="60px" sortBy="#{wo.displayWO.status}" sortOrder="#{sortingBean.sortOrders['displayWO.status']}"

                   filter="#{filterBean.statusFilter}">

     

    FilterBean.java

    public Filter<DisplayWO> getStatusFilter() {

      return new Filter<DisplayWO>() {

       @Override

       public boolean accept(DisplayWO t) {

       switch (statusFilterNumber) {

        ?????

     

       }

       }

      };

      }