JavaFX bind not property member to control

Question

Imagine I have a POJO like:

public class Person()
{
  private int id;
  private String name;

  public int getId()
  {
     return this.id;
  }

  public Str         


        

Answer 1

You have a couple of options here.

Firstly, it's possible to use FX Properties in JPA/Hibernate entities, though you have to be a little careful. In short, you need to make sure you use property access so that the ORM calls the get/set methods, instead of trying to set the field directly. Steven van Impe discusses this on his blog, and I also blogged on the same topic. One thing I haven't tried here is mapping collections and using ObservableLists: that might be tricky as JPA implementations use a subinterface of List.

Your other option is to make the properties "bound properties" in the Java Bean sense, and then to use a Java Bean Property Adapter:

import java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport ;

public class Person()
{
    private int id;
    private String name;

    private final PropertyChangeSupport pcs = new PropertyChangeSupport(this);

    public void addPropertyChangeListener(PropertyChangeListener listener) {
        this.pcs.addPropertyChangeListener(listener);
    }

    public void removePropertyChangeListener(PropertyChangeListener listener) {
        this.pcs.removePropertyChangeListener(listener);
    }

    public int getId()
    {
       return this.id;
    }

    public void setId(int id) 
    {
       int oldId = this.id ;
       this.id = id ;
       pcs.firePropertyChange("id", oldId, id);
    }

    public String getName()
    {
       return this.name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) 
    {
        String oldName = this.name ;
        this.name = name ;
        pcs.firePropertyChange("name", oldName, name);
    }
}

Then you can do

Label nameLabel = new Label();
Person person = new Person();
nameLabel.textProperty().bind(JavaBeanStringPropertyBuilder.create()
    .bean(person)
    .name("name") // name of property to bind to
    .build());