PagedList<Object>
is used for Android's cool paging library. To make the question as minimal as possible :
If i have a list of strings like
List<String> stringList; // it consists of 200 strings
I want to convert stringList
to type PagedList<String>
like
PagedList<String> pagedStringList;
And also if i have a PagedList<Object>
how can convert it to a List<Object>
?
I went through this for reference
If i try the other way round ....
How can I convert List<Object>
into DataSource.Factory<Integer, Object>
..so that indirectly i can convert it into PagedList<>
?
From
DataSource.Factory<Integer, Object>
I can convert toPagedList<>
but how can I convertlist
intoPagedList<>
?
I'll start with the easier part, if you want to converter a PagedList<> to a a List<> you can use the snapshot()
method, as you can seen in the docs it retuns:
Returns an immutable snapshot of the PagedList in its current state.A PagedList snapshot is simply an immutable shallow copy of the current state of the PagedList as a List.
Now as for the other way around you'll need to use PagedList.Builder and for that you'd need a DataSource to create the PagedList. So a avery basic dataSource that would manage your static list would look like this:
StringDataSource.kt
class StringDataSource(val provider: StringListProvider) : PageKeyedDataSource<Int, String>() {
override fun loadInitial(params: LoadInitialParams<Int>, callback: LoadInitialCallback<Int, String>) {
val list = provider.getStringList(0, params.requestedLoadSize)
callback.onResult(list, 1, 2)
}
override fun loadAfter(params: LoadParams<Int>, callback: LoadCallback<Int, String>) {
val list = provider.getStringList(params.key, params.requestedLoadSize)
callback.onResult(list, params.key + 1)
}
override fun loadBefore(params: LoadParams<Int>, callback: LoadCallback<Int, String>) {
val list = provider.getStringList(params.key, params.requestedLoadSize)
val nextIndex = if (params.key > 1) params.key - 1 else null
callback.onResult(list, nextIndex)
}
companion object {
const val PAGE_SIZE = 20
}
}
As you can see you need to override the three methods loadInitial
, loadAfter
and loadBefore
in order to tell the datasource how to load the cunks of data from the list. I've wrapped you list in a provider class just for organization purposes.
StringListProvider.kt
class StringListProvider(val list: List<String>) {
fun getStringList(page: Int, pageSize: Int): List<String> {
val initialIndex = page * pageSize
val finalIndex = initialIndex + pageSize
//TODO manage index out of range
return list.subList(initialIndex, finalIndex)
}
}
To use the data source to generate the PagedList you need to build a simple configuration with PagedList.Config.Builder
:
val myConfig = PagedList.Config.Builder()
.setInitialLoadSizeHint(PAGE_SIZE)
.setPageSize(PAGE_SIZE)
.build()
And then pass that to the PagedList.Builder
with the datasource:
val pagedStrings: PagedList<String> = PagedList.Builder<Int, String>(StringDataSource(StringListProvider(originalStrings)), myConfig)
.setInitialKey(0)
.build()
Now you have a PagedList in pagedStrings
.
The same thing in java:
StringListProvider.java
public class StringListProvider {
private List<String> list;
public StringListProvider(List<String> list) {
this.list = list;
}
public List<String> getStringList(int page, int pageSize) {
int initialIndex = page * pageSize;
int finalIndex = initialIndex + pageSize;
//TODO manage out of range index
return list.subList(initialIndex, finalIndex);
}
}
StringDataSource.java
public class StringDataSource extends PageKeyedDataSource<Integer, String> {
public static final int PAGE_SIZE = 20;
private StringListProvider provider;
public StringDataSource(StringListProvider provider) {
this.provider = provider;
}
@Override
public void loadInitial(@NonNull LoadInitialParams<Integer> params, @NonNull LoadInitialCallback<Integer, String> callback) {
List<String> result = provider.getStringList(0, params.requestedLoadSize);
callback.onResult(result, 1, 2);
}
@Override
public void loadBefore(@NonNull LoadParams<Integer> params, @NonNull LoadCallback<Integer, String> callback) {
List<String> result = provider.getStringList(params.key, params.requestedLoadSize);
Integer nextIndex = null;
if (params.key > 1) {
nextIndex = params.key - 1;
}
callback.onResult(result, nextIndex);
}
@Override
public void loadAfter(@NonNull LoadParams<Integer> params, @NonNull LoadCallback<Integer, String> callback) {
List<String> result = provider.getStringList(params.key, params.requestedLoadSize);
callback.onResult(result, params.key + 1);
}
}
Config generation
PagedList.Config myConfig = new PagedList.Config.Builder()
.setInitialLoadSizeHint(PAGE_SIZE)
.setPageSize(PAGE_SIZE)
.build();
List convertion
List<String> myList = new ArrayList<>();
StringListProvider provider = new StringListProvider(myList);
StringDataSource dataSource = new StringDataSource(provider);
PagedList<String> pagedStrings = new PagedList.Builder<Integer, String>(dataSource, myConfig)
.setInitialKey(0)
.build();