Compound Filtering in JXTable

Question

Hello Everyone,
I am struggling here trying to use a compound Filter (one condition or the other) in my JXTable. I could sucessfully filter my table using only one filter, as below:
Filter[] filters = new Filter[] {
               new PatternFilter(textToFilter, java.util.regex.Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE, colNumber), // regex, matchflags, column
FilterPipeline pipeline = new FilterPipeline(filters);
jxtable.setFilters(pipeline);
However I could not use the above implementation to filter in two condiitions. I tried another approach as the following:
final TableRowSorter<TableModel> sorter = new TableRowSorter<TableModel>(jxtable.getModel());
          RowFilter<TableModel, Object> firstFiler = null;
          RowFilter<TableModel, Object> secondFilter = null;
          java.util.List<RowFilter<TableModel,Object>> filters = new ArrayList<RowFilter<TableModel,Object>>();
          RowFilter<TableModel, Object> compoundRowFilter = null;
          try {
               firstFiler = RowFilter.regexFilter("(?i)"+textToFilter1, colNumber);
               secondFilter = RowFilter.regexFilter("(?i)"+textToFilter2, colNumber);
               filters.add(firstFiler);
               filters.add(secondFilter);
               compoundRowFilter = RowFilter.orFilter(filters); // you may also choose the OR filter
          } catch (java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
          sorter.setRowFilter(compoundRowFilter);           
          jxtable.setRowSorter(sorter);
But it did not work at all, actually the table was displayed normally, without any filtering.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

seems like you are using an outdated swingx (the PatternFilter was swingx1.0 targeted at jdk1.5), cant play with core sorting/filtering of jdk1.6.
So switch to a Swingx version that targets jdk1.6, most recent is Swingx-1.6.2. Then simply set the filter to the table directly:
RowFilter compoundFilter = RowFilter.orFilter(first, second);
jxtable.setRowFilter(compoundFilter);No need to explicitly set a rowSorter, xTable is sortable by default and auto-installs an enhanced RowSorter to support its additional sort/filter functionality
Cheers
Jeanette
forgot: please read the sticky post at the top of the thread list to find out how-to format code. Plus, the Swing crowd hangs out in ... the Swing forum :-)
Edited by: Kleopatra on Mar 7, 2011 11:30 AM