TableViewBuilder idea

[Thiago Milczarek Sayão]

label = "%key"

tableViewBuilder.enableI18n(true).build();

It's just an idea. It also can be done setting a i18n transformer class on
the builder.


Em dom., 22 de jan. de 2023 13:24, Michael Strauß <michaelstrau2 at gmail.com>
escreveu:

> This looks interesting, but I'd rather have this as a library.
> One question: how does this approach work with language localization,
> given that "label" is a constant?
>
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 1:08 AM Thiago Milczarek Sayão
> <thiago.sayao at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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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