JTable, Clipboard and charset encoding...

Question

I'm trying to paste data into JTable. Here's a part of the code:
private BufferedReader getReaderFromTransferable(Transferable t)
throws IOException, UnsupportedFlavorException
if (t == null)
throw new NullPointerException();
DataFlavor[] dfs = t.getTransferDataFlavors();
for (int i = 0; i < dfs.length; i++)
System.out.println(dfs);
DataFlavor df = DataFlavor.selectBestTextFlavor(dfs);
df = df.getTextPlainUnicodeFlavor();
Reader r = df.getReaderForText(t);
return new BufferedReader(r);
When I'm copying data from Excel everything is fine because
DataFlavor of mimetype=text/plain...charset=utf-16le is supported.
However, if I try to copy and paste data only inside my JTable,
I'm getting UnsupportedFlavorException. It happens because
there are only two mimetype=text/plain supported none of which is
charset=utf-16le. API says that utf-16le is used for Windows as
default Unicode encoding. What am I supposed to do? How can I set
utf-16le encoding for my JTable? Or maybe I should do something
different.

Answer 1

Hi,
You dont have to set utf-16le encoding to JTable..instead you have to create your own flawor type which supports current encoding. I have some code example somewhere on my HD, but i'm too lazy to check it out. You can find examples of creating your own data flawor by putting "creating own data flawors" in search field in java.sun.com web site. This can be a really "bloodpath" but try to survive.