Modifying PagedList in Android Paging Architecture library

Question

I\'m currently looking into incorporating the Paging Architecture library (version 2.1.0-beta01 at the time of writing) into my app. One components is a list which

Answer 1

If you want to modify your list without going all the way down to the data layer, you will need to override submitList in your adapter, and then set a callback on your PagedList object. Whenever the PagedList changes, you can then copy those changes to your local dataset. This is not recommended but it's a pretty minimal hack to get working.

Here's an example:

class MyListAdapter : PagedListAdapter(MyDiffCallback()) {

    /**
     * This data set is a bit of a hack -- we are copying everything the PagedList loads into our
     * own list.  That way we can modify it.  The docs say you should go all the way down to the
     * data source, modify it there, and then bubble back up, but I don't think that will actually
     * work for us when the changes are coming from the UI itself.
     */
    private val dataSet = arrayListOf()

    override fun onBindViewHolder(holder: MyViewHolder, position: Int) {
        //Forces the next page to load when we reach the bottom of the list
        getItem(position)

        dataSet.getOrNull(position)?.let {
            holder.populateFrom(it)
        }
    }

    override fun onCreateViewHolder(parent: ViewGroup, viewType: Int): MyViewHolder {
        val view = parent.inflate(R.layout.my_view_holder)
        return MyViewHolder(view)
    }

    class MyDiffCallback : DiffUtil.ItemCallback() {

        override fun areItemsTheSame(oldItem: MyDataItem, newItem: MyDataItem) =
                oldItem.id == newItem.id

        override fun areContentsTheSame(oldItem: MyDataItem, newItem: MyDataItem) =
                oldItem == newItem
    }

    override fun submitList(pagedList: PagedList?) {
        pagedList?.addWeakCallback(listOf(), object : PagedList.Callback() {
            override fun onChanged(position: Int, count: Int) {
                dataSet.clear()
                dataSet.addAll(pagedList)
            }

            override fun onInserted(position: Int, count: Int) {
                dataSet.clear()
                dataSet.addAll(pagedList)
            }

            override fun onRemoved(position: Int, count: Int) {
                dataSet.clear()
                dataSet.addAll(pagedList)
            }
        })
        super.submitList(pagedList)
    }
}