JavaFX 2. Loading external CSV into a TableView - csv

Question

Im pretty new to Java and Im searching the Internet for a simple way to load an external csv into JavaFX TableView.
I was able to parse the CSV into an array but I dont know how I have to handle it now. Then I was playing with the DataFX library. But again wasnt able to pass the parsed csv into my table.
I think I dont really understand ObservableLists here which I believe is kind of necessary? Do you know a good tutorial or could you explain what the next steps would be after parsing the file?
thx
Edit: That's what I did
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.SceneBuilder;
import javafx.scene.control.TableColumn;
import javafx.scene.control.TableView;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
import org.javafxdata.datasources.reader.FileSource;
import org.javafxdata.datasources.provider.CSVDataSource;
public class CSVTableSample extends Application {
#SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
#Override
public void start(Stage stage) throws Exception {
stage.setTitle("Test App");
// Just loading the file...
FileSource fs = new FileSource("test.csv");
// Now creating my datasource
CSVDataSource dataSource = new CSVDataSource(
fs, "order-id", "order-item-id");
#SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
TableView table1 = new TableView();
TableColumn<?, ?> orderCol = dataSource.getNamedColumn("order-id");
TableColumn<?, ?> itemCol = dataSource.getNamedColumn("order-item-id");
table1.getColumns().addAll(orderCol, itemCol);
table1.setItems(dataSource);
stage.setScene(SceneBuilder.create().root(table1).build());
stage.show();
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
Application.launch(args);
}
}
eclipse says for table1.setItems(dataSource);
The method setItems(ObservableList) in the type TableView is not applicable for the arguments (CSVDataSource)

Answer 1

There is a sample solution here for a tab delimited file.
A csv file could handled similarly.
The sample works by declaring the type of the the TableView as TableView<ObservableList<StringProperty>> such that each row in the TableView is an ObservableList of string properties where each property represents a field in the csv file. The TableView's items list is a list of such lists. cellValueFactorys set for each column extract the correct cell value for that column from the ObservableList<StringProperty> backing that cell's row.

Answer 2

The method setItems(ObservableList) in the type TableView is not
applicable for the arguments (CSVDataSource)
change your line
table1.setItems(dataSource);
to
table1.setItems(dataSource.getData());
Example Code Using DataFX :
DataSourceReader dsr1 = new FileSource("your csv file path");
String[] columnsArray // create array of column names you want to display
CSVDataSource ds1 = new CSVDataSource(dsr1,columnsArray);
TableView tableView = new TableView();
tableView.setItems(ds1.getData());
tableView.getColumns().addAll(ds1.getColumns());
if you want to do it in standard javafx way : Look Here