Question

I declare this adapter:

ArrayAdapter<Problem> adapter;

I also declare this this ArrayList:

ArrayList<Problem> problems = new ArrayList <Problem>( );

My Problem class has only 2 fields: problemId and problemName.

I make a call to remote db and populate the data like this:

                    for ( int i = 0; i < obj.length(); i++ )
                    {
                        JSONObject o = obj.getJSONObject(i);                                

                        problem_title = o.getString("problem_title");
                        problem_id = o.getString("problem_id");

                        Problem p = new Problem ( );
                        p.setProblemId(problem_id);                         
                        p.setProblemId(problem_title);

                        problems.add( p );                                                      
                    }

                    adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();     

So the stuff that gets displayed to the screen is object reference, but what I want displayed is the name, and when a user clicks that item, I should also be able to retrieve the id of that item in my listener here:

ListView lv = getListView();
lv.setTextFilterEnabled(true);

lv.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() 
{
    public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
        int position, long id) 
    {
      // When clicked, show a toast with the TextView text
      Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), (( TextView ) view).getText(),
          Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

      // For now just do something simple like display a responsive message
      Log.d( "MyProblemsActivity" , "A choice was made from the list: " + (( TextView ) view).getText() );
      Log.d( "MyProblemsActivity" , "position: " + position );
      Log.d( "MyProblemsActivity" , "id: " + id );

    }
  });        

Help is much appreciated!!!!

Thanks!

Answer 1

I think just need to Override th toString() method of your Problem object. Something like

public String toString() {
    return problemName;
}

This is the default text an ArrayAdapter will use to fill the TextView.