Question

At the moment I need to filter a Cursor/CursorAdapter to only show rows that match a specific condition in the ListView. I don’t want to requery the db all the time. I just want to filter the Cursor I got from querying the DB.

I have seen the question: Filter rows from Cursor so they don't show up in ListView

But I don’t understand how to do the filtering by overwritting the “move” methods in my CursorWrapper. An example would be nice.

Thank you very much.

Answer 1

UPDATE:

I have rewritten the source and my employer has made it available as open source software: https://github.com/clover/android-filteredcursor

You don’t need to override all the move methods in CursorWrapper, you do need to override a bunch though due to the design of the Cursor interface. Let’s pretend you want to filter out row #2 and #4 of a 7 row cursor, make a class that extends CursorWrapper and override these methods like so:

private int[] filterMap = new int[] { 0, 1, 3, 5, 6 };
private int mPos = -1;

@Override
public int getCount() { return filterMap.length }

@Override
public boolean moveToPosition(int position) {
    // Make sure position isn't past the end of the cursor
    final int count = getCount();
    if (position >= count) {
        mPos = count;
        return false;
    }

    // Make sure position isn't before the beginning of the cursor
    if (position < 0) {
        mPos = -1;
        return false;
    }

    final int realPosition = filterMap[position];

    // When moving to an empty position, just pretend we did it
    boolean moved = realPosition == -1 ? true : super.moveToPosition(realPosition);
    if (moved) {
        mPos = position;
    } else {
        mPos = -1;
    }
    return moved;
}

@Override
public final boolean move(int offset) {
    return moveToPosition(mPos + offset);
}

@Override
public final boolean moveToFirst() {
    return moveToPosition(0);
}

@Override
public final boolean moveToLast() {
    return moveToPosition(getCount() - 1);
}

@Override
public final boolean moveToNext() {
    return moveToPosition(mPos + 1);
}

@Override
public final boolean moveToPrevious() {
    return moveToPosition(mPos - 1);
}

@Override
public final boolean isFirst() {
    return mPos == 0 && getCount() != 0;
}

@Override
public final boolean isLast() {
    int cnt = getCount();
    return mPos == (cnt - 1) && cnt != 0;
}

@Override
public final boolean isBeforeFirst() {
    if (getCount() == 0) {
        return true;
    }
    return mPos == -1;
}

@Override
public final boolean isAfterLast() {
    if (getCount() == 0) {
        return true;
    }
    return mPos == getCount();
}

@Override
public int getPosition() {
    return mPos;
}

Now the interesting part is creating the filterMap, that’s up to you.