Using Searchable with changing table models

[robert]

I've been experimenting with Searchable with the JTable in my application. The table model in my JTable can change. For example, a user can click a button to retrieve a new dataset that may have a different number of rows/columns. After trying some experiments, I started getting some Exceptions. For example, if I do a search in the table and then change the table model, an exception may occur (out of bounds exception), because the new model may have a different number of columns, or possibly no data at all. The "Searchable" is still looking at the old table model. I fixed this issue in my application code by installing a new Searchable (SearchableUtils.installSearchable) each time the table model is changed. While this has fixed the problem, I'm not sure this is the best way to solve the issue. Is this the best approach or should I be doing something else?

Thanks

[JIDE Support]

To save me the time to write a test case, could you send me yours or post the exception here? It should be an easy fix.

[robert]

I'm having some trouble reproducing the issue in a test case, which leads me to believe that the issue might be in my application rather than in Jide. I'm still looking into it. I have added an example of one of the exceptions below. Basically what happened is I did a search and a match was found in column 6. Then a new dataset was loaded into the table that had less than 6 columns. This produced "ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 6".

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Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 6
   at com.fermsoft.amphora.TableModel1.getValueAt(TableModel1.java:2395)
   at com.fermsoft.amphora.TableSorter.getValueAt(TableSorter.java:238)
   at javax.swing.JTable.getValueAt(JTable.java:1903)
   at com.jidesoft.swing.TableSearchable.getValueAt(Unknown Source)
   at com.jidesoft.swing.TableSearchable.getElementAt(Unknown Source)
   at com.jidesoft.swing.Searchable.findFromCursor(Unknown Source)
   at com.jidesoft.swing.SearchableBar.highlightNext(Unknown Source)
   at com.jidesoft.swing.SearchableBar.highlightAllOrNext(Unknown Source)
   at com.jidesoft.swing.SearchableBar.access$000(Unknown Source)
   at com.jidesoft.swing.SearchableBar$1.searchableEventFired(Unknown Source)
   at com.jidesoft.swing.Searchable.fireSearchableEvent(Unknown Source)
   at com.jidesoft.swing.TableSearchable.tableChanged(Unknown Source)
   at javax.swing.table.AbstractTableModel.fireTableChanged(AbstractTableModel.java:280)
   at javax.swing.table.AbstractTableModel.fireTableDataChanged(AbstractTableModel.java:182)


[JIDE Support]

In this case, maybe you can hook up with JIDE Common Layer source code and debug yourself. It shouldn't be difficult to do it yourself instead of trying to reproduce it. I just looked at the code based on the stack trace but couldn't think of a reason.

Thanks,

[sunanda]

When I search for any item present in a combo box if the item is present in the combo box then it is not allowing to type the second character. If the search item is not present in the combo box then it is allowing to type all the character. Can anybody suggest me how to over come this problem. This is happening only for a particular combo box.

[JIDE Support]

Since it is happening only for a particular ComboBox, would you please try to figure out the difference between that ComboBox and the others? I checked out Searchable code and could not find any place to cease accepting keyboard input so it's really hard to guess the reason. A test case or the code snippet of the particular ComboBox would help us go further.

Thanks,