Simply use ObjectTableView in place of JavaFX's TableView and all of the work is handled for you.
Model class:
public class Test {
private int id;
private String name;
private String city;
private String country;
// annotate with HiddenField to skip rendering in TableView
@HiddenField
private String internalId;
// annotate with ColumnName to provide custom name for the TableView
@ColumnName(name = "Pretty Column Name")
private String someThingLongAndUnintuitive;
// getters/setters/constructor here
// a findAll() method implementation
}JavaFX Application:
import com.jfxdev.ObjectTableView; // our only class
ObservableList<Test> myObjects = Test.findAll();
// ObjectTableView takes care of mapping the object to a TableView
ObjectTableView<Test> table = new ObjectTableView<>(myObjects);
// use below constructor if we don't have our data yet, but still want the TableView
// ObjectTableView<Test> table = new ObjectTableView<>(Test.class);
// Name multiple columns via Map
HashMap<String,String> columnNames = new HashMap<>();
columnNames.put("id", "T1_ID");
columnNames.put("name", "NAME");
table.applyColumnNameMapping(columnNames);
// or name them one at a time (a bit slower)
table.renameColumn("city", "City");If we add the above ObjectTableView to a scene, we should end up with the following:
That's all folks, everything is handled in the com.jfxdev.ObjectTableView class. Feel free
to use it in your own code or fork the repo.