com.levigo.util.swing.table
Class TableSorter

java.lang.Object
  com.levigo.util.swing.table.TableSorter

public class TableSorter
extends Object

Allows to sort tables. The following features are supported:

• sorting different data types (String, date, numeric)
• sorting in ascendant and descendant order
• aggregating more than one criteria (e.g. column 3 ascendant, then column 1 descendant)
• whether to append or prepend those further search criteria (FIRST, LAST)

Author:

Lumir Boureanu, o.suck@levigo.de (modifications)

Constructor Summary

TableSorter(SortableTableModel model)
Instantiate a TableSorter with a given table model.

Method Summary

void	addCriterium(int columnIndex, boolean isAscent, boolean clearExisting) Adds the given criteria to the vector of criteria and sorts the whole model.
int	getInsertionIndex(Comparable[] columnValues)
int	getSortDirection(int column) Return the sort direction for the given column: 0: the column is not considered for sorting 1: the column is sorted in ascending order -1: the column is sorted in descending order.
int	getSortPriority(int column) Get the sort priority for a given column.
void	resort() Resort table by using the stored criteria.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

TableSorter

public TableSorter(SortableTableModel model)

Instantiate a TableSorter with a given table model.

Parameters:

model -

Method Detail

addCriterium

public void addCriterium(int columnIndex,
                         boolean isAscent,
                         boolean clearExisting)

Adds the given criteria to the vector of criteria and sorts the whole model.

Parameters:

columnIndex - column index to sort after

isAscent - true- ascendant; false descendant

clearExisting - true: remove previous criteria; false: add to existing criteria

getSortPriority

public int getSortPriority(int column)

Get the sort priority for a given column. Returns the 0-based priority or -1 if the column is not considered for sorting.

Parameters:

column -

getSortDirection

public int getSortDirection(int column)

Return the sort direction for the given column:

• 0: the column is not considered for sorting
• 1: the column is sorted in ascending order
• -1: the column is sorted in descending order.

Parameters:

column -

resort

public void resort()

Resort table by using the stored criteria.

Please note: the indexes array of the model will be changed by this method!

getInsertionIndex

public int getInsertionIndex(Comparable[] columnValues)

Parameters:

columnValues -