javaswingfile-iojtablestringtokenizer

populate a 'JTable' with values from a '.txt' file


I'm new to java and I have a text file like this

0784879541|P. K.|Tharindu|745874654v|Colombo|
0714786542|H. R.|Kamal|654124784v|Colombo|
0114784544|H. P.|Gamage|6847654127v|Kandy|

I want to populate my 'jTable' with the data from this text file. below is my code so far which doesn't work. When I execute the program nothing is displayed on the table.

private void formWindowOpened(java.awt.event.WindowEvent evt) {                                  
    String line = null;
    DefaultTableModel dtm = (DefaultTableModel) PhoneBookTable.getModel();
    
    try {
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
        StringTokenizer st1 = new StringTokenizer(br.readLine(), "|");
        while (st1.hasMoreTokens()) {
            columns.addElement(st1.nextToken());
        }
        while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
            StringTokenizer st2 = new StringTokenizer(line, "|");
            while (st2.hasMoreTokens()) {
                data.addElement(st2.nextToken());
            }
        }
        br.close();
        dtm.addRow(new Object[]{columns, data});//add here 
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

} 

Can someone please help me?


Solution

  • you need to change your to something like this.you need to reset vector data = new Vector(); each time when you read new line otherwise it contain first row + second row + so on.and also you can call dtm.setRowCount(0); to avoid empty initial rows . and you need only to add rows the problem of your comment[cell contain lot of columns] is because of dtm.addRow(new Object[]{columns, data}) use dtm.addRow(data); instead and problem will be fixed

    code

    private void formWindowOpened(java.awt.event.WindowEvent evt) {
            String line = null;
            DefaultTableModel dtm = (DefaultTableModel) PhoneBookTable.getModel();
    
            try {
                BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
    
                while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
                    data = new Vector();// this is important
                    StringTokenizer st1 = new StringTokenizer(line, "|");
                    while (st1.hasMoreTokens()) {
                        String nextToken = st1.nextToken();
                        data.add(nextToken);
                        System.out.println(nextToken);
    
                    }
                    System.out.println(data);
                    dtm.addRow(data);//add here 
                    System.out.println(".................................");
                }
    
                br.close();
    
            } catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
    
        }