Hi,
TableView data usually comes from a database and is mapped to java objects
(I don't have actual statistics on this but it's probably a true assertion).
It Would be very useful if we could just copy database mapped objects to
javafx observables and say: Display it on a tableview.
Configuration of each column would be done as an annotation, like this:
public class EmployeeObservable {
@Column(label = "Registration", style = "-fx-alignment: right")
private IntegerProperty registration = new SimpleIntegerProperty();
@Column(label = "Name")
private StringProperty name = new SimpleStringProperty();
@Column(label = "Salary", converter = BigDecimalCurrencyConverter.class)
private ObjectProperty<BigDecimal> salary = new SimpleObjectProperty<>();
//boilerplate here
}
Other annotation options:
@Column(ignore = true)
@Column(graphicsConverter = CheckBoxGraphicsConverter.class)
And to apply it:
TableViewBuilder<EmployeeObservable> builder = new
TableViewBuilder<>(tableView, EmployeeObservable.class);
builder.build();
I actually have implemented this and it's very useful. I can't share it
because I've done it for a private company, but it's easy to re-do it.
I'm not sure if it would go in a general purpose toolkit, but I thought it
would be nice to share (the idea).
-- Thiago.
