- Type Parameters:
M
- the type of the model, which must be an implementation ofTableModel
RowSorter
that provides sorting
and filtering using a TableModel
.
The following example shows adding sorting to a JTable
:
TableModel myModel = createMyTableModel(); JTable table = new JTable(myModel); table.setRowSorter(new TableRowSorter(myModel));This will do all the wiring such that when the user does the appropriate gesture, such as clicking on the column header, the table will visually sort.
JTable
's row-based methods and JTable
's
selection model refer to the view and not the underlying
model. Therefore, it is necessary to convert between the two. For
example, to get the selection in terms of myModel
you need to convert the indices:
int[] selection = table.getSelectedRows(); for (int i = 0; i < selection.length; i++) { selection[i] = table.convertRowIndexToModel(selection[i]); }Similarly to select a row in
JTable
based on
a coordinate from the underlying model do the inverse:
table.setRowSelectionInterval(table.convertRowIndexToView(row), table.convertRowIndexToView(row));
The previous example assumes you have not enabled filtering. If you
have enabled filtering convertRowIndexToView
will return
-1 for locations that are not visible in the view.
TableRowSorter
uses Comparator
s for doing
comparisons. The following defines how a Comparator
is
chosen for a column:
- If a
Comparator
has been specified for the column by thesetComparator
method, use it. - If the column class as returned by
getColumnClass
isString
, use theComparator
returned byCollator.getInstance()
. - If the column class implements
Comparable
, use aComparator
that invokes thecompareTo
method. - If a
TableStringConverter
has been specified, use it to convert the values toString
s and then use theComparator
returned byCollator.getInstance()
. - Otherwise use the
Comparator
returned byCollator.getInstance()
on the results from callingtoString
on the objects.
In addition to sorting TableRowSorter
provides the ability
to filter. A filter is specified using the setFilter
method. The following example will only show rows containing the string
"foo":
TableModel myModel = createMyTableModel(); TableRowSorter sorter = new TableRowSorter(myModel); sorter.setRowFilter(RowFilter.regexFilter(".*foo.*")); JTable table = new JTable(myModel); table.setRowSorter(sorter);
If the underlying model structure changes (the
modelStructureChanged
method is invoked) the following
are reset to their default values: Comparator
s by
column, current sort order, and whether each column is sortable. The default
sort order is natural (the same as the model), and columns are
sortable by default.
TableRowSorter
has one formal type parameter: the type
of the model. Passing in a type that corresponds exactly to your
model allows you to filter based on your model without casting.
Refer to the documentation of RowFilter
for an example
of this.
WARNING: DefaultTableModel
returns a column
class of Object
. As such all comparisons will
be done using toString
. This may be unnecessarily
expensive. If the column only contains one type of value, such as
an Integer
, you should override getColumnClass
and
return the appropriate Class
. This will dramatically
increase the performance of this class.
- Since:
- 1.6
- See Also:
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Nested Class Summary
Nested classes/interfaces declared in class javax.swing.DefaultRowSorter
DefaultRowSorter.ModelWrapper<M,
I> Nested classes/interfaces declared in class javax.swing.RowSorter
RowSorter.SortKey
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Constructor Summary
ConstructorDescriptionCreates aTableRowSorter
with an empty model.TableRowSorter
(M model) Creates aTableRowSorter
usingmodel
as the underlyingTableModel
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Method Summary
Modifier and TypeMethodDescriptionComparator
<?> getComparator
(int column) Returns theComparator
for the specified column.Returns the object responsible for converting values from the model to strings.void
Sets theTableModel
to use as the underlying model for thisTableRowSorter
.void
setStringConverter
(TableStringConverter stringConverter) Sets the object responsible for converting values from the model to strings.protected boolean
useToString
(int column) Returns whether or not to convert the value to a string before doing comparisons when sorting.Methods declared in class javax.swing.DefaultRowSorter
allRowsChanged, convertRowIndexToModel, convertRowIndexToView, getMaxSortKeys, getModel, getModelRowCount, getModelWrapper, getRowFilter, getSortKeys, getSortsOnUpdates, getViewRowCount, isSortable, modelStructureChanged, rowsDeleted, rowsInserted, rowsUpdated, rowsUpdated, setComparator, setMaxSortKeys, setModelWrapper, setRowFilter, setSortable, setSortKeys, setSortsOnUpdates, sort, toggleSortOrder
Methods declared in class javax.swing.RowSorter
addRowSorterListener, fireRowSorterChanged, fireSortOrderChanged, removeRowSorterListener
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Constructor Details
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TableRowSorter
public TableRowSorter()Creates aTableRowSorter
with an empty model. -
TableRowSorter
Creates aTableRowSorter
usingmodel
as the underlyingTableModel
.- Parameters:
model
- the underlyingTableModel
to use,null
is treated as an empty model
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Method Details
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setModel
Sets theTableModel
to use as the underlying model for thisTableRowSorter
. A value ofnull
can be used to set an empty model.- Parameters:
model
- the underlying model to use, ornull
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setStringConverter
Sets the object responsible for converting values from the model to strings. If non-null
this is used to convert any object values, that do not have a registeredComparator
, to strings.- Parameters:
stringConverter
- the object responsible for converting values from the model to strings
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getStringConverter
Returns the object responsible for converting values from the model to strings.- Returns:
- object responsible for converting values to strings.
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getComparator
Returns theComparator
for the specified column. If aComparator
has not been specified using thesetComparator
method aComparator
will be returned based on the column class (TableModel.getColumnClass
) of the specified column. If the column class isString
,Collator.getInstance
is returned. If the column class implementsComparable
a privateComparator
is returned that invokes thecompareTo
method. OtherwiseCollator.getInstance
is returned.- Overrides:
getComparator
in classDefaultRowSorter<M extends TableModel,
Integer> - Parameters:
column
- the column to fetch theComparator
for, in terms of the underlying model- Returns:
- the
Comparator
for the specified column - Throws:
IndexOutOfBoundsException
- if column is outside the range of the underlying model
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useToString
protected boolean useToString(int column) Returns whether or not to convert the value to a string before doing comparisons when sorting. If trueModelWrapper.getStringValueAt
will be used, otherwiseModelWrapper.getValueAt
will be used. It is up to subclasses, such asTableRowSorter
, to honor this value in theirModelWrapper
implementation.- Overrides:
useToString
in classDefaultRowSorter<M extends TableModel,
Integer> - Parameters:
column
- the index of the column to test, in terms of the underlying model- Returns:
- true if values are to be converted to strings before doing comparisons when sorting
- Throws:
IndexOutOfBoundsException
- ifcolumn
is not valid
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