TableViewBuilder idea

[Thiago Milczarek Sayão]

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.
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