Question

in my application I’m trying to extract the values from a filter list (auto-complete field).
In that field I have [ID, Name] ex [j342234, A,S]. I was able to retrieve the whole criteria by
doing this

Object Filterlistresult = fliterList.getCriteria();

but now I want to get extract ID part only from that field. Any Ideas?

Thank you in advance.

// here I get the values from a web server and insert them to the work Vector
public void parseJSONResponceInWB(String jsonInStrFormat) {
    try {
        JSONObject json = new JSONObject(jsonInStrFormat);
        JSONArray jArray = json.getJSONArray("transport");

        for (int i = 1; i < jArray.length(); i++) {
            JSONObject j = jArray.getJSONObject(i);
            ID = j.getString("ID");
            Name = j.getString("Name");

            WBenchVector.addElement(ID + " " + Name);
        }
    } catch (JSONException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

// adding the values to the filter list
private void RequestAutoComplete() {
    String[] returnValues = new String[WBenchVector.size()];
    System.out.print(returnValues);
    for (int i = 0; i < WBenchVector.size(); i++) {
        returnValues[i] = (String) WBenchVector.elementAt(i);
    }
    autoCompleteField(returnValues);
}

// creating the filter list field
private void autoCompleteField(String[] returnValues) {
    filterLst = new BasicFilteredList();
    filterLst.addDataSet(ID, returnValues, "",
            BasicFilteredList.COMPARISON_IGNORE_CASE);

    autoFld.setFilteredList(filterLst);
}

Finally i’m getting what the user select using this

AutoFieldCriteria = filterLst.getCriteria();

Answer 1

Thank you Nate. I actually fixed the problem.
I converted the filterField Object to String and then I looked for the index of the first space, and substring the first word

      Object AutoFieldCriteria = filterLst.getCriteria();
 String AutoFieldString = AutoFieldCriteria.toString();
 int spacePos = AutoFieldString.indexOf(" ");
 String AutoFieldFirstWord = AutoFieldString.substring(0,spacePos);

Thanks again.