Android SearchView.OnQueryTextListener OnQueryTextSubmit not fired on empty query string

Question

I am using Android 4.1.2. I have a SearchView widget on an ActionBar. Documentation on SearchView.OnQueryTextListener

Answer 1

As others have mentioned this behavior is intentional. I gave up on a solution for OnQueryChangeListener and decided to workaround by implementing OnEditorActionListener on the SearchView's EditText, which you can get a handle to using R.id.search_src_text. As long as you setImeOptions of the SearchView to EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_SEARCH you can handle a click on the keyboard search button. See this SO answer for more details.

Answer 2

I had the same problem and end up with the following solution: custom SearchView + OnQueryTextListener.onQueryTextChange

Custom SearchView:

public class MySearchView extends SearchView {

private boolean expanded;

public MySearchView(Context context) {
    super(context);
}

@Override
public void onActionViewExpanded() {
    super.onActionViewExpanded();
    expanded = true;
}

@Override
public void onActionViewCollapsed() {
    super.onActionViewCollapsed();
    expanded = false;
}

public boolean isExpanded() {
    return expanded;
}
}

Creating action and setting callback:

@Override
public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {
    super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu, inflater);
    searchAction = menu.add(0, SEARCH_ACTION_ID, 0 , getString(R.string.action_search));
    searchAction.setShowAsAction(SHOW_AS_ACTION_ALWAYS | SHOW_AS_ACTION_COLLAPSE_ACTION_VIEW);       
    searchView = new MySearchView(getSherlockActivity());
    searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(searchQueryListener);
    searchView.setIconifiedByDefault(true);
    searchAction.setActionView(searchView);
}

And last the listener:

private OnQueryTextListener searchQueryListener = new OnQueryTextListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {
        search(query);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {
        if (searchView.isExpanded() && TextUtils.isEmpty(newText)) {
            search("");
        }

        return true;
    }

    public void search(String query) {
        // reset loader, swap cursor, etc.
    }

};

Tested on ABS 4.3.

Answer 3

I had the same problem, since empty query's are not supported I had to download and use ActionBarSherlock and then modify the onSubmitQuery() method.

This is how my onSubmitQuery() looks like now

private void onSubmitQuery() {
     CharSequence query = mQueryTextView.getText();
     if (query == null) {query = "";}
     if (mOnQueryChangeListener == null
             || !mOnQueryChangeListener.onQueryTextSubmit(query.toString())) {
         if (mSearchable != null) {
             launchQuerySearch(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_UNKNOWN, null, query.toString());
             setImeVisibility(false);
         }
         dismissSuggestions();
     }
 }

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

In my case I just wanted to enable user to clear his query as it was used as keyword in API search, so the simplest idea was:

    searchView.setOnSearchClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            userQuery = "";
        }
    });

where userQuery is my variable used for searching etc.

Hope it helps someone :)

Answer 5

I can manage to do it simply by implementing the setOnQueryTextListener in this way:

SearchView searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.searchProductView).getActionView();
    searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {
            return false;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {
            if (TextUtils.isEmpty(newText)) {
                loadLocalData(newText);
            }
            return true;
        }
    });

Where my loadLocalData method is

//query my DB
products = ProductDAO.findByIdList(idList);
LinearLayoutManager layoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(this);
listView.setLayoutManager(layoutManager);
listView.setAdapter(<YOURADAPTER>)

This solution clears your query even if you clear the text with the "X" button

Answer 6

ive an easier work around: use onQueryTextChange, but only render if its empty.

searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {
                    renderList(true);
                    return false;
            }

            @Override
            public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {
                    if (searchView.getQuery().length() == 0) {
                            renderList(true);
                    }
                    return false;
            }
    });